Greetings,

DARCS 2.1.0 seems to write bogus data (CRC?) into _darcs/patches/*.gz if
used with darcs init --old-fashioned-inventory.

EXAMPLE FOR BROKEN OUTPUT:

darcs init --old-fashioned-inventory
darcs pull -a ../some-dir
gzip -t _darcs/patches/*.gz

EXAMPLE FOR PROPER OUTPUT:

darcs init --hashed
darcs pull -a ../some-dir
gzip -t _darcs/patches/*.gz  # produces no output => OK

This is on openSUSE 11 with gzip 1.3.12 and zlib 1.2.3. Darcs has been
using the C zlib.

See also http://bugs.darcs.net/issue864
Thanks!

Hi Eric,

it's not clear to me how that would be related to issue864.

Plain recordings already show bad CRCs... try this on a traditional
inventory repo:

darcs optimize --uncompress
darcs check

DARCS will "repair" _all_ patches by compressing them into .gz files with
broken CRC... eek!

Hi Matthias, Thorkil,

I meant http://bugs.darcs.net/issue844

Sorry for the confusion!

Looks like this were a dupe of issue844.