Hi,
I have not been able to get a clean copy of the firebird source I
have followed the links from the firebird.sf.net website to sf.net and
then downloaded the firebird source tar ball.

I have downloaded it both from my web browser (firefox) and wget the
command line tool.

both resulted in the same file, which both suffer from the same error:

Tanimura~/projects> md5sum firebird-1.5.2.4731.tar.bz2*
fea53ed5213cff4bd96513fb1a6c0ca2 firebird-1.5.2.4731.tar.bz2
fea53ed5213cff4bd96513fb1a6c0ca2 firebird-1.5.2.4731.tar.bz2.1
Tanimura~/projects> tar -jxf firebird-1.5.2.4731.tar.bz2.1
tar: firebird-1.5.2.4731/src/install/arch-specific/win32/fr/documents-en-fran\347ais.txt:
Cannot open: (null)
tar: firebird-1.5.2.4731/src/install/arch-specific/win32/pt/instala\347\343o_leia-me.txt:
Cannot open: (null)
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


I have the following version of tar and bzip2 installed:

Tanimura~/projects> bzip2 --version
bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor. Version 1.0.2, 30-Dec-2001.

Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Julian Seward.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms set out in the LICENSE file, which is included
in the bzip2-1.0 source distribution.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
LICENSE file for more details.

bzip2: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
bzip2: For help, type: `bzip2 --help'.

Tanimura~/projects> tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.


I am wondering if it would be possible for firebird to also distribute
gzipped packages, it seems many other projects offer both bzip2 and
gzipped packags.

Thanks,
Todd