> Message du 06/09/18 17:30
> De : "Hazel Russman"
> A : [email protected]
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> Objet : Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2
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> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:11:22 +0200 (CEST) Terence Waterhouse 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 --
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No, as I said the only version I could find was at web.archive.org. When I
started 8.3 was not available, so the issue has perhaps already been addressed?
I shall continue with 8.2, as my present build is for educational purposes
above all.
Sorry for the top posting in the first post, and for the "sir"...
regards
Terence Waterhouse
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