Hi Darik, I did not read every entry in that list of files. But there were a couple things I noticed while skimming it…
Those files are in the mirrors section of the ibiblio server. They don’t really have anything directly to do with the packages in the software repo area. Nor do they have anything directly to do with the packages on the release media. Mirror and Repo are just my names for the different areas on the server. They don’t have any official names. Anyhow, they are not really related to each other. I have nothing at all to do with the files in the mirrored area. However, I believe they are exact copies of the original mirrored files. On the other hand, I manage the Repo area and packages. Nowadays, it requires little manual intervention on my part and is fully automated. However, I must still throw together packages to upload to that section. That is a tedious process. When putting together those updates, I usually pull them directly from there website and not the mirrors area on ibiblio. I have noticed that several developers use different programs to generate their zip downloads and while not actually corrupt. The compatibility with those files varies among decompression software. After all the preparations have been done and the files are placed in the proper directories for a package, I then use a script to recompress them. That script checks for LFN files. If it finds any in the Source directory, it compress the whole thing to preserve the LFNs. As for other LFNs elsewhere in the package, those individual files are placed in an LFNFILES.zip. After the process of preserving LFNs is complete, the entire package is then compressed in DOS compatibility mode. Anyhow, I can’t say wether or not any files in the mirror section are corrupt or just incompatible with that zip program. But, as I mentioned in an earlier post, I do know there is at least one that contains a corrupt archive nested several layers deep inside it’s package. That would be the package for OpenGEM. There may be others. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
