5.0.3 release candidate 2 was: Re: [GRASS5] Re: 5.0.3 release candidate 1

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:29:44PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
[...]
> > On two machines (one Mandrake 9.1, one Mandrake Cooker), the tarball
> > gives errors:
> >
> > grass-5.0.3rc2/src.contrib/DUKE/r.terraflow/html/r.terraflow.html
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> >
> > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> > tar: Child returned status 1
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >
> 
> It seems due to this problem I also don't have the nviz source after
> uncompressing the tar.gz:
> 
> $ tar -tzvf grass-5.0.3rc2_src.tar.gz |grep -i nviz
> - -rw-r--r-- neteler/ssi    5483 2002-01-25 07:45:33
> grass-5.0.3rc2/html/html/nviz.html
> - -rw-r--r-- neteler/ssi     222 2002-01-22 06:51:36
> grass-5.0.3rc2/src/tcltkgrass/module/nviz
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> 
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> wget -c tells me this file is fully retreived. Could md5sums of rc
> tarballs be published (as is done for final releases)? I get:
> c992460c7c5d67c49ab258839b9ecda2  grass-5.0.3rc2_src.tar.gz

The checksum looks wrong:

2141d92e97b0383041c0bbed6a6e65a1  grass-5.0.3rc2_src.tar.gz

Strange problem!

 Markus