png problem with tar on 8.x

[Kimmo Paasiala]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Albert Shih <Albert.Shih at obspm.fr> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Just a report for a bug on 8.x about png ports
>
>
> --->  Upgrading 'png-1.5.14' to 'png-1.5.15' (graphics/png)
> --->  Building '/usr/ports/graphics/png'
> ===>  Cleaning for png-1.5.15
> ===>  Found saved configuration for png-1.4.1_1
> ===> Fetching all distfiles required by png-1.5.15 for building
> ===>  Extracting for png-1.5.15
> => SHA256 Checksum OK for libpng-1.5.15.tar.xz.
> tar: Unrecognized archive format
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
> *** Error code 1
>
> it's « normal » because xz is not supported with tar from FreeBSD 8.x
>
> Regards.
>
> JAS
>
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> mar 14 mai 2013 23:29:53 CEST
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Check what the fetched file actually contains. If you're behind a
forced proxy that inserts a standard page for failed http requests the
file you get will contain that page in html and the fetch(1) will
succeed but the contents of the file will be wrong of course.

-Kimmo