GNU bug report logs - #22690
ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 23:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 25376

Found in version 25.1

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#22690: closed (Re: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah)
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 02:25:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#22690: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah

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

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 22690 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 22690-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 18:24:47 -0800

Closing the bug report, since the bug cannot be fixed.


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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Emacs bug reports and feature requests <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:25:58 -0800

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
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