On Friday 04 January 2013 12:27:11 Alan Coopersmith did opine: Message additions Copyright Friday 04 January 2013 by Gene Heskett
> On 01/ 4/13 04:48 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I'll 2nd that sentiment. I have had several occasions where I > > downloaded the bzip2 and had to go back and get the .gz because whole > > directory trees were missing from the unpacked archive. Once or > > twice I have pulled the bzip2 a 2nd time, same md5sum, but the 2nd > > time unpacked well enough to build. A 2nd unpack of the first > > download was still defective. > > > > In short, bzip2 has not been 100% trustworthy here. > > We always use the bzip2 archives for building our packages, and haven't > hit any problems. Since no one else reports any corrupted archives on > the X.Org download sites, it sounds more likely a problem on your end. I can count the problems on one hand Alan, so its well over 99% dependable, but not 100%, which was my point. bzip2 has also had 3 or 4 updates since that time frame but I've done zero research to see if the reported reason for the updates was possibly related. Thanks. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> Win98 error 009: Erroneous error: Nothing is wrong. I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder to find any... _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com