Your package is broken in opkg.org

[Risto H. Kurppa]

(cc:d the authors of some broken packages I was able to extract the
e-mail address from..)

Hi!

If you have packaged some of the apps listed below, I just want to let
you know that the package in opkg.org is broken and not recognized as
an installable file
(to try this, download the packages from opkg.org and run file
package.ipk - it should return Debian Binary but for the ones listed
below, it returns data/empty or gzip)

So please check that your local package returns debian binary and then
upload it again to opkg.org. The file need to have a control file in
it to work in the opkg.org repository opkg.org/packages

Packaging instructions can be found at
http://cc.oulu.fi/~rantalai/freerunner/packaging/

Thanks!

r

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa <risto at kurppa.fi> wrote:
> DATA
> gpssight_0.8.4_freerunner.armv4t.ipk
>
> EMPTY
> sortdesk_1.2_armv4t.ipk
> jdd_0.1_all.ipk
> usbmode_0.1_armv4t.ipk
> accel-rotate_0.41_armv4t.ipk
> 0_multitap-pad_0.1_armv4t.ipk
> omview_r32_armv4t.ipk
> deforaos-player_0.1.0_armv4t.ipk
> illume-keyboards-ru_0.2_om-gta02.ipk
>
> GZIP
> yphonekitd_0.4.3_any.ipk
> zomg_0.0.6-r2_armv4t.ipk
> mbac_0.3_all.ipk
> ylock_0.2_all.ipk
> mofi_0.02_armv4t.ipk
> illume-keyboards-norwegian-no_0.1_all.ipk
> efplayer_0.3_arm.ipk
> playstankontakarta_0.4_any.ipk
> osmupdater_0.4_any.ipk
> voicenote_0.3_arm.ipk
> mokocard_0.1_all.ipk
> mokoconv_0.1_all.ipk
> shortom_0.2_all.ipk
>
> So things seem to fail because:
> - Empty file is an empty file, not much to discuss about that. Only
> need to find out the reason for that: did the authors really upload an
> empty package or did the upload fail but an empty file was created?
>
> - ar isn't able to extract gzip files so all files recognized as gzip
> will not get listed properly in the Packages file. Again the reason
> for the wrong file type should be found: did the packages package it
> wrong or did the type/mime/something get corrupted along the way,
> during the upload or on the server?



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