Re: apt and publicfile's httpd

[email protected] Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:30:15 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.publicfile
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On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 06:50:04PM +0100, Clemens Fischer wrote:
> * 2004-10-27 [email protected]:
> 
> > # cmp qmail-1.03-111patch_14_15.src.rpm.FAILED qmail-1.03-111patch_14_15.src.rpm
> > qmail-1.03-111patch_14_15.src.rpm.FAILED qmail-1.03-111patch_14_15.src.rpm differ: byte 95233, line 345
> >
> > Investigating, I see
> >
> > # od -t a -j 95232 -N 10 qmail-1.03-111patch_14_15.src.rpm.FAILED
> > 0272000  us nak  us   j   * bel   Q sub   9   N
> > 0272012
> >
> > # od -t a -j 95232 -N 10 qmail-1.03-111patch_14_15.src.rpm
> > 0272000  cr  us nak  us   j   * bel   Q sub   9
> > 0272012
> >
> > So it seems missing cr's cause the corruption of the file.
> 
> can you assert the "Content-Type" of the files publicfile is serving?  it must
> be a binary type, not text/*!

Look into the content-type patch for publicfile.  I find it quite useful:

http://www.ohse.de/uwe/patches/publicfile-0.52-filetype-diff

It uses envdir.

-- 
adam