Thu Sep 6 23:22:45 UTC 201820180906232245

a/pkgtools-15.0-noarch-23.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Removed stray cat and loop kludges for lack of reported size, since this
  is fixed now in tar.
a/tar-1.30-x86_64-3.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Fixed a bug in the nolonezero patch that was evidently causing all of the
  issues in installpkg that we'd been kludging around (e.g. the "stray cat").
  Thanks *very* much to NonNonBa for the patch, and to SeB for the initial
  analysis of the problem.
ap/ghostscript-9.24-x86_64-2.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Applied upstream patch to fix "Filter failed". Thanks to th_r and bamunds.
d/gdb-8.2-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/indent-2.2.12-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img:  Rebuilt.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img:  Rebuilt.

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/source/a/pkgtools/pkgtools.SlackBuild b/source/a/pkgtools/pkgtools.SlackBuild
index 18451d5fe..1b0614125 100755
--- a/source/a/pkgtools/pkgtools.SlackBuild
+++ b/source/a/pkgtools/pkgtools.SlackBuild
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ PKGNAM=pkgtools
 # *** UPDATE THESE WITH EACH BUILD:
 VERSION=15.0
 ARCH=${ARCH:-noarch}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-22}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-23}
 
 # If the variable PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME is set, then this script will report what
 # the name of the created package would be, and then exit. This information
diff --git a/source/a/pkgtools/scripts/installpkg b/source/a/pkgtools/scripts/installpkg
index 9e75ef030..2180016f5 100644
--- a/source/a/pkgtools/scripts/installpkg
+++ b/source/a/pkgtools/scripts/installpkg
@@ -491,30 +491,7 @@ for package in $* ; do
   if [ "$MODE" = "install" ]; then
     echo "Verifying package $(basename $package)."
   fi
-  # The stray cat reduces the frequency of the lack of reported size.
-  # If it still fails, we hit it with a bigger hammer down below.
-  #
-  # SeB's proposed fix for this. Untested.
-  #cat $package | $packagecompression -dc | LC_ALL=C dd 2> $TMP/tmpsize${MCOOKIE} | ( tar tf - ; cat > /dev/null ) 2> /dev/null 1> $TMP/tmplist${MCOOKIE}
-  # Some background info from SeB's email:
-  # As you can see, when dd doesn't print anything, it returns 141,
-  # which means it has got a SIGPIPE. The problem is hence some tar
-  # archives cause tar to exit before having emptied stdin. That's
-  # why adding a cat before tar sometimes makes things better (tar
-  # causes it to get a SIGPIPE some ms before it causes itself dd to
-  # get one) 
-  #
-  # A fix is then to replace:
-  #
-  # cat ... | $decompressor ... | ... dd ...  | cat ... | tar tf - >...
-  #
-  # with:
-  #
-  # $decompressor ... | ... dd ...  | ( tar tf -; cat >/dev/null ) >...
-  #
-  # This way the last cat will either exit because there's nothing on
-  # stdin or purge this one properly so dd gets the EOF it needs.
-  cat $package | $packagecompression -dc | LC_ALL=C dd 2> $TMP/tmpsize${MCOOKIE} | cat 2> /dev/null | tar tf - 2> /dev/null 1> $TMP/tmplist${MCOOKIE}
+  cat $package | $packagecompression -dc | LC_ALL=C dd 2> $TMP/tmpsize${MCOOKIE} | tar tf - 2> /dev/null 1> $TMP/tmplist${MCOOKIE}
   TARERROR=$?
   if [ ! "$TARERROR" = "0" ]; then
     EXITSTATUS=1 # tar file corrupt
@@ -525,14 +502,6 @@ for package in $* ; do
     continue
   fi
   UNCOMPRESSED="$(cat $TMP/tmpsize${MCOOKIE} | tail -n 1 | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | numfmt --to=iec)"
-  # Weird bug "fix". Sometimes we get no uncompressed size (this started when we
-  # moved away from tar-1.13, but I don't see what that could have to do with
-  # it). So, if we have no uncompressed size here, demand it in this loop.
-  # Hopefully the bug is not weird enough to make this an infinite loop. :/
-  while [ "$UNCOMPRESSED" = "" ]; do
-    cat $package | $packagecompression -dc | LC_ALL=C dd 1> /dev/null 2> $TMP/tmpsize${MCOOKIE}
-    UNCOMPRESSED="$(cat $TMP/tmpsize${MCOOKIE} | tail -n 1 | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | numfmt --to=iec)"
-  done
   rm -f $TMP/tmpsize${MCOOKIE}
 
   # If we still don't have a package description, look inside the package.