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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Broken grimoires
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:26:28 +0200

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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