Re: icecat-3.6.11: many malformed language packs

[Stuart Longland]

On 10/28/10 03:09, Lars Wendler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while adding icecat-3.6.11 to our Gentoo package repository I noticed that 
> most of the 3.6.11 xpi files available at 
> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/download/langpacks/ seem to be malformed. They all 
> have a size of exactly 4096 bytes and unzip moans:
> 
> $ unzip de.xpi
> Archive:  de.xpi
>   End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
>   a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
>   latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
>   the last disk(s) of this archive.
> unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of de.xpi or
>         de.xpi.zip, and cannot find de.xpi.ZIP, period.
> 
> Am I do something wrong or is there something wrong with the xpi files? 
> 
> 
> Please keep me in CC as I'm not subscribes to this list.

Seems the problem has been fixed, or something is wrong with your
downloading tool...

address@hidden /tmp $ file en-GB.xpi
en-GB.xpi: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract
address@hidden /tmp $ ls -lh en-GB.xpi
-rw-r--r-- 1 stuartl stuartl 117K Oct 28 08:21 en-GB.xpi
address@hidden /tmp $ unzip en-GB.xpi
Archive:  en-GB.xpi
replace chrome.manifest? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: A
  inflating: chrome.manifest
  inflating: install.rdf
  inflating: chrome/en-GB.jar
address@hidden /tmp $
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