[BusyBox] basic: archive??

[Thomas Cameron]

Hello all,
	This brings up a point I've been mulling over for a short while.
It's a little off topic, but hey.  Shouldn't the daily snapshots, etc be
in .bz2 format?  I know that it's a small thing, but it saves space, and
transfer time.  For people on slower connections, and mirroring
purposes, I think a small .bz2 would be nice (won't affect me either
way).  Anyway, just a thought.  What does everybody else think?  Erik?

-Tom Cameron


-----Original Message-----
From: Dario Nuevo [mailto:dnuevo at mix.ch] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:36 AM
To: busybox at busybox.net
Subject: Re: [BusyBox] basic: archive??


hi glenn..

>
>People arent dumb, just inexperienced.
>

well, that's right.. ;-) comes time, comes knowledge 
;) and sure some smart people helping out, thanks ;)

>Make sure the file you downloaded has the correct
size
>

here:
813499 Mar  5 16:07 busybox-0.60.2.tar.gz

i can't see the correct byte size in my browser in 
the /downloads-directory, but i think that's 
realistic.. it shows me 794 kb..

md5sum of my file:
06a5f9cb4ddb75da2b876d3a7f14654d
busybox-0.60.2.tar.gz

>try breaking it down into 2 steps, that give you
more info on whats wrong.
>eg
>gunzip busybox-0.60.2.tar.gz
>tar -xf busybox-0.60.2.tar

well, here:
---
stingray:~# gunzip busybox-0.60.2.tar.gz 

gunzip: busybox-0.60.2.tar.gz: unexpected end of 
file
---
so the 2nd step isn't possible anymore..

altrough the direct tar command extracted some 
files, but it's impossible to compile them (not all 
i think)..

hey, can't somebody extract the tar.gz on his 
machine, repack it als bz2 and set it to me (pm)? 
;-)
or any other ideas?

thanks!
dn

>
>Busybox has a debian package in woody (testing),

well, first i'm not a really package fan. if i have 
the chance to compile it myself, that's the best..

i downloaded the package and there's no chance to 
get it running on potato (it's not a requirement, 
but i had to test it)..

>dependencies will
>probably require you to upgrade your glibc
though... you should consider
>upgrading to woody :)
>

yeah, i don't consider to update my glibc without 
the distro ;) i know, i should upgrade.. but time's 
not around, the server is potato and i don't want to 
change all the stuff 'til woody is released really 
really stable ;-)

dn





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