Vincent Cayenne 02-07-03 11.58:

> Are there often incidences of corrupted tarballs?

Yes, often when download URLs change, and download results are in fact just
404's...

> 
> ============
> mkdir -p /sw/src/aquaterm-0.3.0a-4
> tar -xvzf /sw/src/aquaterm-0.3.0a.tar.gz
> 
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> ### tar failed, exit code 2
> Unpacking the tarball aquaterm-0.3.0a.tar.gz of package aquaterm-0.3.0a-4
> failed. The most likely cause for this is a corrupted or incomplete download.

The by *far* most usual reason for this is that the download URL has
changed, and that you need to do 'fink selfupdate-cvs' to get the new
locations in your fink .info files.
-- 

Oscar Erlandsson
Erlandsson at mac dot com



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