Subject: bug#22690: closed (Re: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 02:25:02 +0000

Your bug report

#22690: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 18:24:47 -0800
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Closing the bug report, since the bug cannot be fixed.

Subject: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Emacs bug reports and feature requests <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:25:58 -0800
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Stephen Leake reported the problem here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-02/msg00867.html

Andreas Schwab analyzed it here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-02/msg00887.html

The following shell transcript shows how to reproduce the problem:

$ git clone -c transfer.fsckObjects=true git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/elpa.git
Cloning into 'elpa'...
remote: Counting objects: 93882, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (32519/32519), done.
error: object 2699d230e3b592ae42506d7b5c969a7ac6a4593c:contains zero-padded file 
modes
fatal: Error in object
fatal: index-pack failed