On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:11:22 +0200 (CEST) Terence Waterhouse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear sir, > > > > Although I have been using exclusively Linux for many many years it is only a > few days ago I decided to buils my own system using LFS v.8.2. I am not quite > certain which list this post should actually be on, but I subscribed to this > list because I shall probably need it later... I do not generally post > unnecessary questions, and indeed, I don't post questions at all. So here > goes : > > > > Building LFS 8.2 went smoothly until section 5.18 bzip2-1.0.6. When I tried > to untar the package I got the following output: > > > > tar: This does not look like a tar archive gzip: > > stdin: not in gzip format > > tar: Child returned status 1 > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > > In fact it is apparently a html file according to 'file' output with a tar.gz > extension. I first downloaded the original packages with the wget-list file, > then, meeting this problem, ran wget with the specific file name. No succes. > I tried the site http//:www.bzip.org and could find no trace of the sources. > A visit to the site will tell you why. > > > > I tried all the usual tricks to unpack it with absolutely no succes. To cut > things short I spent 2 days searching the web to no avail then sent off a > desperate search for "what happened to bzip2?" This search produced the > following link : > > > > https://lwn.net/Articles/762264/ > > > > I also found on this page the following link to the source files of bzip2 and > it is the only link I have been able to find: > > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20140722223512/http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz > > > > Download > > replace the package obtained from wget-list > > untar > > and carry on as usual. > > > > I might attract your attention to the fact that the post at lwn.net is dated > August 9th 2018 and so is recent. > > > > As LFS uses bzip2 extensively it seemed to me that this information might be > of some use. I can only hope that the newly downloaded version works. . . > > > > Many many thanks for the great work, I will let you know if I run into any > difficulties with the package. > > I leave it to your judgement as to how to address this potentially important > issue. > > > > Yours sincerely > > > > Terence Waterhouse > I just checked. It's not on Anduin. There's a link but it leads nowhere. That's strange because I had no problem finding it in 8.3-rc2. -- Hazel Russman -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
