[m-dev.] Re: [Nancy.Mazur at cs.kuleuven.ac.be: EOF while looking.. .INSTALL.in]

Simon Taylor stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Thu Oct 18 20:48:19 AEST 2001


On 18-Oct-2001, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 18-Oct-2001, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > This is almost certainly file corruption of the .INSTALL.in file.
> 
> It is. Noone should check in anything until this is fixed.
> 
> > It looks very much as if the .INSTALL.in file in the CVS repository has
> > been truncated.  Perhaps we can get the sysads to provide us with a
> > backup copy of this file and reconstruct it?
> 
> Yes, but first we should find out which other files also need to be restored.
> I have written a script to find out, ~zs/bin/script/integrity_check, but
> I can't test it until user mercury release its lock in the repository.
> However, I am going home, and can't wait that long; some else can try.

I've done this, and that is the only affected file.
I've asked for a backup copy.

Simon.
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