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Re: Bug with binary ports? (tar: +CONTENTS: Not found in archive)

by Ryan Schmidt-24 :: Rate this Message:

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On May 12, 2012, at 11:51, Marko Käning wrote:

> On Apr 28, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
>> You can easily verify that this is not the case by downloading and
>> extracting or listing the contents of the archives.
>
> Hi Josh,
>
> I downloaded the archive and could verify that the +CONTENTS file was in there:
> ----
> $ curl http://packages.macports.org/ktoblzcheck/ktoblzcheck-1.38_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 >a.tbz2
> $ tar -tvf a.tbz2
> drwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Apr 19 15:25 ./
> -rw-r--r--  0 root   wheel      55 Apr 19 15:25 ./+COMMENT
> -rw-r--r--  0 root   wheel    1832 Apr 19 15:25 ./+CONTENTS
> …
> ----
> So, I wonder what else causes my problems here.
>
> A more recent thread ("binary packages and Portfile changes") discusses that it might be needed to revbump the portfile to fix this.
> Should I give that a try?

The other reason is if your "tar" is gnutar, and you're running MacPorts < 2.1. What does "tar --version" say? What version of MacPorts are you running?


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