[linux-audio-user] Re: Synthing drum sounds

[Dana Olson]

On 2/19/06, Dana Olson <dana at ubuntustudio.com> wrote:
> On 2/19/06, Lars Luthman <larsl at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 19:43 -0500, Dana Olson wrote:
> > > Hey! I want to package Smack for Ubuntu Dapper, but I only have like,
> > > a couple days left. Could you tell me where to get the tarball that
> > > actually fully extracts? I tried finding you on IRC in #lad, but I
> > > guess you're not on yet.
> > >
> > > dana at polly:~/debs-dapper/Smack-0.2.1$ tar zxf smack_0.2.1.orig.tar.gz
> > >
> > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> > > tar: Child returned status 1
> > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> > > dana at polly:~/debs-dapper/Smack-0.2.1$
> >
> > Are you sure that there actually are files missing? I get that error all
> > the time when I unpack tarballs that I've packed myself using 'tar zcf
> > blah > blah.tar.gz', but everything is still there.
> >
> > --
> > Lars Luthman
> > PGP key:     http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d00-llu/pgp_key.php
> > Fingerprint: FCA7 C790 19B9 322D EB7A  E1B3 4371 4650 04C7 7E2E
> >
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)
> >
> > iD8DBQBD+SGPQ3FGUATHfi4RAkjaAJ0ThqAiv1arGGpOORZx2GVQsKZ5dACcDSgE
> > h/8VeuYQtle5aROOli+QBzs=
> > =psVk
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
> No, actually I am not sure. But I am not going to package something
> that doesn't extract cleanly... This is the only tarball I have ever
> downloaded with this issue, so I don't understand why it has to be
> this way.
>
> Dana
>


Well,  lesson #1 for today, clear browser cache for subsequent downloads. :P

The file works fine, just the first one I downloaded must've got
corrupt, and the stupid Berlios download links are not very Wget
friendly.. So anyhow, thanks.

I will package this now, assuming I don't run into troubles.

Dana