[darcs-devel] [issue1239] detect gz and repair crc checksum errors

[Eric Kow]

New submission from Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net>:

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:

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nosy: dagit, dmitry.kurochkin, duncan, kowey, simon, thorkilnaur
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title: detect gz and repair crc checksum errors

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