Re: pkg/56547: Package p5-Socket6-0.29nb2.tgz is compressed by xz not gz -- no update via pkgin possible

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/56547; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/56547: Package p5-Socket6-0.29nb2.tgz is compressed by xz
 not gz -- no update via pkgin possible
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 03:53:24 +0000

 On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 04:35:00PM +0000, ogm%oliver-mueller.com@localhost wrote:
  > pkg_add: Can't open +CONTENTS of depending package p5-Socket6-0.29
  > pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
 
 This is caused by a corrupted package database; the installed perl
 package thinks something that doesn't exist depends on it. Run
 pkg-admin rebuild-tree to fix.
 
  > Cause of the problem is a wrong compressed tarball:
  > $ file /var/db/pkgin/cache/p5-Socket6-0.29nb2.tgz
  > /var/db/pkgin/cache/p5-Socket6-0.29nb2.tgz: XZ compressed data
  > 
  > It's compressed by xz and should be by gzip.
 
 That is not the problem (nor a problem at all, all packages have been
 xz for years) -- notice that it's complaining about p5-Socket6-0.29,
 not p5-Socket6-0.29nb2.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost