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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 05:09:11PM +0200, Ondra Tomecka wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Am I the only one who is unable to correctly update grimoires or it is 
> more common error?
> 
> Symptoms are that there are lots of missing spells from the grimoire (I'm 
> using test and stable, with test having higher priority), and scribe 
> update does not fix it. It started some time last week but I didn't have 
> time to investigate it to make sure the spells are really missing. I'm 
> using test branch of sorcery, version 1.10.2-rc2. But the problem persists 
> when downgrading to latest stable sorcery. I guess it's not 
> sorcery-related anyway. At some moment I thought that I may be getting 
> incomplete file, but wget reports "`test.tar.bz2' saved [1923704/1923704]" 
> for test and "`stable.tar.bz2' saved [1893877/1893877]". Games grimoire 
> seems to be fine.

I just downloaded the test grimoire tarball and everything looks fine to
me (and it has the same size as you stated above, so i guess it is the
same).
You could try removing the grimoires completely, i.e. delete everything
in /var/lib/sorcery/codex and readding them with scribe add.

> Spells which I found missing:
> DBD-mysql DBI DB_File Digest-MD5 HTML-Parser HTML-Tagset LWP MIME-Base64 
> MPlayer-codecs MPlayer-fonts Net-FTP ORBit SDL-sdlpl URI WindowMaker 
> WindowMaker-extra Wine Xdialog alsa-lib alsa-utils apmd atk audiofile 
> aumix bash bc busybox bzip2 cpio esound espgs faad2 flac fontconfig 
> ghostscript-fonts-other ghostscript-fonts-std glib2 gnome-libs gnupg gtk+ 
> gtk+2 gzip ircii lesstif libIDL libao libart_lgpl libdv libdvdcss 
> libdvdnav libdvdread libglade2 libmikmod libogg libsndfile libvorbis mc 
> nas nmap openldap openssh openssl pango pcmcia-cs perl qt-x11 rdesktop rpm 
> rpmunpack rxvt smpeg sox tar tcsh unarj unrar unzip uudeview vorbis-tools 
> w32codec wmCalClock xfree86 xvid zip zlib
> 
> Especially problematic are zlib and perl :(
> 
> Anyone has some idea what's going on? I thought problem can be that there 
> is bad file being cached on our company web proxy, but I can't update the 
> grimoires even from home, where I connect directly, without using any 
> proxy server :(
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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