On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:43:30PM +0100, pieter blomme wrote: > Hi, > > I'm at section 6.23 of the book. I need to decompress this package, but I > have never encountered a .xz archive before. I've tried several suggestions > on the web concerning depackaging .xz archives, but all seem to return > errors. Mostly something like: > > root:/sources# tar xzvf iana-etc-2.30-1-any.pkg.tar.xz > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > any help would be appreciated, > pieter
You seem to have two problems. The first is trivial - recent versions of tar will use xz-utils to extract .tar.xz files. The correct switch to force processing of a .xz archive is -J (-z is for gzip or .gz files). However, xz-utils has not yet made it into the LFS book (unless I missed the mail from the commit). Which leads me to your second problem: you should be using a pristine version of this (apparently now orphaned) package, but the '-1-any.pkg' in its name suggests you have been tricked into getting something alse. I've no idea about the '.any.pkg' part of the name (except, it has correctly been added by whoever packaged this and made it available - I see no malice here), but the '-1' part indicates a (distro-style) revision. For this package, please try the copy from the development book: http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/LFS/lfs-packages/conglomeration//iana-etc/iana-etc-2.30.tar.bz2 and please, for all packages, check the md5sums of what you have downloaded to be sure you haven't accidentally picked up something different. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
