The problem was indeed a tar file wich wasn't really a tar file, but a html page. The page was a script asking wich mirror to use for downloading blah.tar.gz ( http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/ )
The strange thing was that it happened a couple of times during 'selfupdate' (but not on all files) . Each time the solution was to get the file manually and place it in /sw/src , and then run fink selfupdate again. Thanks for the tip. Piet Derek Homeier wrote: > On Monday, August 12, 2002, at 05:54 PM, Justin Hallett wrote: > >> fink should never have issued that command. If it did there is likely >> something wrong with your fink installing. And you should wait for >> someone else to help you, since you where installing fink-0.10 I finigured >> it was a new isntall and you issued that command. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> Thanx. >>> Is there any way to configure fink to use the right (gzip/Tar) command? >>> >>> Now I will have to continue the install update procedure manually, and >>> that >>> might prove a bit tricky for me. >>> > There's nothing wrong with that command! > >> Justin Hallett wrote: >> >> this looks like a bzip2 line >> >> bzip2 -dc foo.tar.bz2 | tar -xf - >> >> gzip files like foo.tar.gz are extracted like this >> >> tar -xzf foo.tar.gz >> >> the z tells tar that the file is also gziped and you don't have to call >> gunzip directly this way. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> gzip -dc packages-0.4.0.tar.gz | tar -xvf - >> > This does exactly the same as "tar xvzf packages-0.4.0.tar.gz", just as > > bzip2 -dc foo.tar.bz2 | tar -xf - > > does the same as > > tar xjf foo.tar.bz2 > > (with fink's tar, the flag for bzip'ed files is somewhat inconsistent ;). > > If gzip complains about a .gz file not being in gzip format, then that > file is corrupt, probably from a botched download -- most likely it is a > "file not found" html-message or something, check it with > > less packages-0.4.0.tar.gz > > What fink _should_ have done actually is tell you about the corrupt file > and ask if it should delete and try to download it again. Since it has not > done so, I suggest just to delete the packages file manually and run > selfupdate again, or try to download packages-0.4.0.tar.gz manually in > case there are still problems with the download. > > HTH, > Derek > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board > for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! > http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
