On Jan 16, 2014, at 11:20 PM, Charles Lepple wrote: > On Jan 16, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:04:56 -0800, Alexander Hansen >> <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Another option would be to recompress it and have the new tarball uploaded >>> to Fink's repository on Sourceforge. >> >> .tgz is not non-standard (per spec) and not uncommon in the world, I don't >> think "we should rehost it" is a good general solution. > > The filename extension isn't the issue - I neglected to mention that I tried > renaming it to tar.gz before I tried running gzip separately. > > It's the tar header keyword extensions inside the gzip payload that are > tripping up the integrated tar+gz auto-detector in GNU tar.
Wrong assumption about the headers on my part. Sorry for the confusion. Here's what happened: I used search.cpan.org to get the download URL, and assumed that was just a front end to the CPAN mirrors. Actually, the file downloaded from search.cpan.org had an extra gzip layer on it (and of course this wasn't reflected in the .tgz extension). The SCHILY.* extended header keyword warnings were, in fact, just warnings, and GNU tar is able to properly auto-detect the .tgz compression on the file from the CPAN mirror servers. The cgi-formbuilder-pm.info file passes validation, but if any Perl experts want to glance at it (I'm used to packaging Python and C stuff), it's in a temporary branch here before I commit everything to CVS: https://github.com/clepple/fink-dists/commit/18712affa0b2784f8ef033cd5222d72406d42963 -- Charles Lepple clepple@gmail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
