Issue 1239: detect and repair gz crc checksum errors - Darcs bug tracker

Title	detect and repair gz crc checksum errors
Priority	feature	Status	resolved
Milestone	2.3.x	Resolved in
Superseder		Nosy List	Serware, ckeen, darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, duncan, ganesh, kowey, thorkilnaur
Assigned To		Topics

Created on 2008-11-24.10:57:06 by kowey, last changed 2010-06-15.21:51:31 by admin.

Files
File name	Uploaded	Type	Edit	Remove
foreign-import-gzclose-at-the-right-type-and-check-the-error-code.dpatch	kowey, 2008-11-24.11:00:05	text/x-darcs-patch

Messages
msg6733 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2008-11-24.10:57:02
We should fix this somewhat urgently (I would say it is release critical) On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 19:09:37 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > So it actually needs more work to more carefully read affected .gz > files and suggest the use of darcs > repair on affected repos. Obviously darcs repair will also need to > be enhanced to perform the fix. ... > People who build darcs using the external zlib binding are already > hitting this issue in real repos. The external zlib package correctly > identifies compressed streams with bad checksums:
msg6734 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2008-11-24.11:00:05
I'm attaching a patch from Duncan which I would like to apply to darcs once this issue is resolved. Attachments foreign-import-gzclose-at-the-right-type-and-check-the-error-code.dpatch
msg7845 (view)	Author: ganesh	Date: 2009-05-26.16:39:42
Taking ownership of this since I'm working on it at the moment (and discussing my progress on darcs-users). If anyone else is actually working on this at the moment please let me know so we can coordinate.
msg8443 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2009-08-23.21:58:36
Fixed in darcs-2.3 with a series of patches by Ganesh.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-11-24 10:57:06	kowey	create
2008-11-24 10:58:40	kowey	set	priority: feature nosy: + droundy, Serware topic: + Target-2.0
2008-11-24 11:00:08	kowey	set	files: + foreign-import-gzclose-at-the-right-type-and-check-the-error-code.dpatch nosy: droundy, kowey, dagit, simon, thorkilnaur, dmitry.kurochkin, Serware, duncan status: unread -> unknown messages: + msg6734
2008-11-24 11:14:16	ckeen	set	nosy: + ckeen assignedto: ckeen
2008-11-24 11:38:22	kowey	set	nosy: droundy, kowey, dagit, simon, thorkilnaur, dmitry.kurochkin, Serware, duncan, ckeen title: detect gz and repair crc checksum errors -> detect and repair gz crc checksum errors
2008-11-26 16:59:24	ganesh	set	nosy: + ganesh
2008-12-27 20:36:14	mornfall	set	topic: + Target-2.3, - Target-2.0 nosy: droundy, kowey, dagit, ganesh, simon, thorkilnaur, dmitry.kurochkin, Serware, duncan, ckeen
2009-05-26 16:39:45	ganesh	set	status: unknown -> has-patch nosy: droundy, kowey, dagit, ganesh, simon, thorkilnaur, dmitry.kurochkin, Serware, duncan, ckeen messages: + msg7845 assignedto: ckeen -> ganesh
2009-05-27 19:39:23	droundy	set	nosy: - droundy
2009-08-10 23:52:07	admin	set	nosy: - dagit
2009-08-23 21:58:38	kowey	set	status: has-patch -> resolved nosy: kowey, ganesh, simon, thorkilnaur, dmitry.kurochkin, Serware, duncan, ckeen messages: + msg8443 assignedto: ganesh ->
2009-08-25 17:35:00	admin	set	nosy: + darcs-devel, - simon
2009-08-27 14:31:27	admin	set	nosy: kowey, darcs-devel, ganesh, thorkilnaur, dmitry.kurochkin, Serware, duncan, ckeen
2009-10-23 22:45:32	admin	set	nosy: + serware, - Serware
2009-10-23 23:31:04	admin	set	nosy: + Serware, - serware
2010-06-15 21:51:31	admin	set	milestone: 2.3.x
2010-06-15 21:51:31	admin	set	topic: - Target-2.3