Hi Tim, You are the third person to make this very sensible suggestion. Once we actually release the software we will be sure to do this! The limiting step at the moment is that many small changes are going in (you will have noticed the absence of a release announcement) which of course change the checksums.
It is not "York" but the CCP4 core team at Daresbury who will need to do this, and we will. Thanks & best wishes, Graeme -----Original Message----- From: Tim Gruene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 December 2008 10:11 To: Winter, G (Graeme) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4-6.1.0-core-src.tar.gz TAR error A fast and simple method to check whether the downloaded file is corrupt is to calculate checksums, e.g. md5 or sha - corresponding programs should be available on most Unix/ Linux systems. It depends, however, on York calculating the checksum and putting it next to the actual archive for downloading. Tim -- Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Winter, G (Graeme) wrote: > Dear Michael, > > How did you do the download? I have just downloaded this file using the old fashioned command line ftp method, and it worked fine. I expect that there has been an error somewhere in the transmission. > > If you fetch the file from: > > ftp ftp.ccp4.ac.uk > cd ccp4/6.1 > get ccp4-6.1.0-core-src.tar.gz > > you should find that everything is fine. If not, please get in touch directly with the helpdesk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we will try to work out what is happening. > > Thanks & best wishes, > > Graeme > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Michael Weyand > Sent: Thu 12/4/2008 8:59 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ccp4bb] ccp4-6.1.0-core-src.tar.gz TAR error > > Dear Charles, > > to your information: > > I just downloaded the Version 6.1 source tar file to my x86_64 Linux box > (SuSE 10.2, AMD64) and got the following tar error message. > All other (LINUX-386 and both COOCH and PHASER) tar files were fine!! > > ---> SNIP > ... > ccp4-6.1.0/lib/data/monomers/ps.resource > ccp4-6.1.0/lib/data/monomers/full_names.list > ccp4-6.1.0/lib/data/monomers/mon_lib_ind.cif > ccp4-6.1.0/lib/data/monomers/mon_lib_ind2.cif > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > ---> SNIP > > May be a corrupt file? > > Regards > Michael > > -- > Dr. Michael Weyand mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Max-Planck-Institut fuer molekulare Physiologie, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11 > D-44227 Dortmund, Germany, fon: +49(0)231-133-2738, fax: +49(0)231-133-2797 >
