Re: MiKTeX repository on CTAN: pgf.tar.lzma corrupt?
"George N. White III" <[email protected]>
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On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Hubert Lam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > Can someone confirm that pgf.tar.lzma is corrupt on the MiKTeX CTAN repository and that corrupt file has replicated? > The nearest repository has a pgf.tar.lzma from November 2010. This seems to be intact: $ wget http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/pgf.tar.lzma --2011-05-28 09:17:13-- http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/pgf.tar.lzma Resolving mirror.its.dal.ca... 192.75.96.254 Connecting to mirror.its.dal.ca|192.75.96.254|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 5606689 (5.3M) [application/x-tar] Saving to: `pgf.tar.lzma' [...] 2011-05-28 09:17:17 (1.37 MB/s) - `pgf.tar.lzma' saved [5606689/5606689] $ ls -l pgf.tar.lzma 5476 -rw-r--r-- 1 x y 5606689 2010-11-01 10:10 pgf.tar.lzma $ xz -t pgf.tar.lzma [ no news is good news] I can read the .tar archive after uncompressing. > I have my own personal CTAN repository on a server at home with rsync running every 2 days. Last night I was still able to download a copy of pgf.tar.lzma and overwrite the rsync'ed version, but tonight after rsync ran again MiKTeX setup tells me that verification on the file failed. > Does MiKTeX maintain some independent checksums or sizes of the individual package archives? If so it is possible that the problem is in the database and pgf.tar.lzma is fine. -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1