Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2
On Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:26:10 +0200 Thomas Trepl wrote: > Regarding bzip2: We as LFS cannot "switch back" to gzip as many > packages are provided bz2 compressed. To clarify - I didn't mean "we" as in specifically LFS, but rather "we" as in the whole world (should stop using bzip). LOL! Cheers, Mike -- 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
Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2
> Message du 06/09/18 18:30 > De : "Thomas Trepl" > A : "LFS Support List" > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2 > > Am Donnerstag, den 06.09.2018, 18:03 +0200 schrieb Terence Waterhouse: > > > > > > Message du 06/09/18 18:00 > > > De : "Michael Shell" > > > A : lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org > > > Copie à : > > > Objet : > > > Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2 > > > > > > On > > > Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:11:22 +0200 (CEST) Terence Waterhouse > > wrote: > > > > https://lwn.net/Articles/762264/ From > > that article, someone setup a > > > bzip2 gitlab page: > > ... > > > Interesting and important information > > > Michael. Thank you. Perhaps > > the gzip option might seem more reliable? > > > But I am not qualified to > > answer that. > Hi guys, first, please have > > > a look to the mail format you use. It's quite hard to read. Simply text > > > format would be appropriate, no html required. Regarding bzip2: We as LFS > > > cannot "switch back" to gzip as many packages are provided bz2 > > > compressed. Because of that, we need the bzip2 package in the book. > > > Otherwise we would not be able to uncompress .bz2 files which might cause > > > trouble, even more when coming to BLFS. The disapperance of bzip2.org > > > happened timely just between 8.2 and 8.3. In 8.2 we have the old link > > > (previously working well) and in the 8.3, we allready use another > > > location (LFSs own server). So, if you nowadays use 8.2 (which is > > > perfectly ok), you fill stumble over that issue that bzip2.org > > > disappeared. We will not change 8.2 or earlier versions of the book as it > > > is something like "modifying the past". -- Thomas -- > > > 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 Thanks Thomas, as I found a copy and am now into chapter 6 I will try to get to the end of this build using LFS 8.2. However, for future builds I will of course move on. . . For Hazel I confirm that the link provided by Bruce works with no problem for me. Thanks also to Bruce for the pertinent reminders of the caveats regarding repositories in chapter 3. Had I looked back I would probably have saved everyone some time ! Perhaps this thread is solved now and can be closed ? Many thanks to all for the prompt replies Terence -- 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
Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2
On 09/06/2018 11:55 AM, Hazel Russman wrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:26:10 +0200 Thomas Trepl wrote: The disapperance of bzip2.org happened timely just between 8.2 and 8.3. In 8.2 we have the old link (previously working well) and in the 8.3, we allready use another location (LFSs own server). So, if you nowadays use 8.2 (which is perfectly ok), you fill stumble over that issue that bzip2.org disappeared. We will not change 8.2 or earlier versions of the book as it is something like "modifying the past". -- Thomas But it isn't on the server. Just go to the index page on Anduin and try downloading bzip2. It isn't there. The patch is there but not the actual tarball. Yes it is: http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz That is the URL in 8.3. -- Bruce -- 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
Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2
On 09/06/2018 11:26 AM, Thomas Trepl wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 06.09.2018, 18:03 +0200 schrieb Terence Waterhouse: Message du 06/09/18 18:00 De : "Michael Shell" A : lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Copie à : Objet : Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2 On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:11:22 +0200 (CEST) Terence Waterhouse wrote: > https://lwn.net/Articles/762264/ From that article, someone setup a bzip2 gitlab page: ... Interesting and important information Michael. Thank you. Perhaps the gzip option might seem more reliable? But I am not qualified to answer that. Hi guys, first, please have a look to the mail format you use. It's quite hard to read. Simply text format would be appropriate, no html required. Regarding bzip2: We as LFS cannot "switch back" to gzip as many packages are provided bz2 compressed. Because of that, we need the bzip2 package in the book. Otherwise we would not be able to uncompress .bz2 files which might cause trouble, even more when coming to BLFS. The disapperance of bzip2.org happened timely just between 8.2 and 8.3. In 8.2 we have the old link (previously working well) and in the 8.3, we allready use another location (LFSs own server). So, if you nowadays use 8.2 (which is perfectly ok), you fill stumble over that issue that bzip2.org disappeared. We will not change 8.2 or earlier versions of the book as it is something like "modifying the past". I agree with Thomas, but I will also point out the second paragraph in Section 3.1: "Download locations may not always be accessible. If a download location has changed since this book was published, Google (http://www.google.com/) provides a useful search engine for most packages. If this search is unsuccessful, try one of the alternative means of downloading discussed at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/packages.html#packages.; All packages used in LFS and BLFS (any version back to, IIRC, version 6.0) are archived at one of the file mirrors. This includes most packages that were in development versions of the books but never made it to a released book. -- Bruce -- 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
Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2
On 09/06/2018 09:11 AM, 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 : No problem. You are in the right place. 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: You should be using LFS-8.3 which was released about a week ago. bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz and it's patch are indeed available at http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/ If you look at Section 3.1, you will find the instructions: pushd $LFS/sources md5sum -c md5sums popd That should identify any problems with downloading package sources. Or specifically: $ md5sum $LFS/sources/bzip2-1.0.6* 00b516f4704d4a7cb50a1d97e6e8e15b bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz 6a5ac7e89b791aae556de0f745916f7f bzip2-1.0.6-install_docs-1.patch -- Bruce 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/2014073512/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 -- 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
Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2
On Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:26:10 +0200 Thomas Trepl wrote: > The disapperance of bzip2.org happened timely just between 8.2 and 8.3. > In 8.2 we have the old link (previously working well) and in the 8.3, > we allready use another location (LFSs own server). So, if you nowadays > use 8.2 (which is perfectly ok), you fill stumble over that issue that > bzip2.org disappeared. We will not change 8.2 or earlier versions of > the book as it is something like "modifying the past". > > -- > Thomas But it isn't on the server. Just go to the index page on Anduin and try downloading bzip2. It isn't there. The patch is there but not the actual tarball. -- 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
Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2
> Message du 06/09/18 17:37 > De : "Douglas R. Reno" > A : "LFS Support List" > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2 > > > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:30 AM Hazel Russman wrote: > 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/2014073512/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 > > > Guys/Gals, > Check out this link - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/teams/releng/tarballs-needing-help/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz > GNOME has it as well :-) -- 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 Thank you Douglas ! I will keep this safely bookmarked ! Terence -- 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
Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2
> Message du 06/09/18 17:30 > De : "Hazel Russman" > A : lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2 > > 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/2014073512/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 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-- 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
Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:30 AM Hazel Russman wrote: > 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/2014073512/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 > > Guys/Gals, Check out this link - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/teams/releng/tarballs-needing-help/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz GNOME has it as well :-) -- 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
Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2
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/2014073512/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
[lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2
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/2014073512/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 -- 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
