Re: Broken patch-2.1.106 on linux-kernel-patch, do not apply

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 11:45:02 +1000

On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 20:41:28 -0400 (EDT),
George <greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu> wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Keith Owens wrote:
>>The uuencoded version of patch-2.1.106.gz on the linux-kernel-patch
>>mailing list is broken and should not be applied. gunzip complains
>>about premature end of file.
>
>I don't have a problem with premature end of file.
>
>nidhogg:~$ uudecode 2.1.106;gunzip patch-2.1.106.gz

That is seriously wierd. I definitely have a broken patch after
uudecode.

cmp -l mailed/patch-2.1.106.gz kernel.org/patch-2.1.106.gz

317746 72 244
317747 221 147
317748 235 101
317749 6 232
317750 153 375
317751 365 177
317752 377 311
317753 46 206
317754 30 32
317755 152 256
317756 272 266
317757 331 130
317758 140 23
317759 114 0

Getting a clean patch-2.1.106.gz from ftp.kernel.org, uuencoding it and
comparing with the mailed patch, there is a difference in the last
line.

..I&=!FOU_R88:KK98$P`` mailed uuencode
.I&=!FOU_R88:KK98$P`` ftp.kernel.org patch-2.1.106.gz, uuencoded
`
end

So either the mail was corrupted in transit or there are differences in
uuencode/uudecode. My version is sharutil-4.2-8 (rpm), I get the same
effect with sharutils-4.2-5. Which version of uudecode do you have?
What does the last line of your version of the mailed patch say?

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