Re: ELPA git repo contains zero-padded file modes and running ~$ make fails

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I have this error when git-pulling the elpa repository:
>>
>>   guerry git/elpa ‹master› » git pull
>>   remote: Counting objects: 64150, done.
>>   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (22564/22564), done.
>>   error: object 2699d230e3b592ae42506d7b5c969a7ac6a4593c:
>> zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
>>   fatal: erreur de fsck dans l'objet empaqueté
>>   fatal: échec de index-pack
>
> Known problem: just disable fsck for the initial fetch.
>
>> Also, running ~$ make in the cloned repo fails with this error:
>>
>>   In toplevel form:
>>   packages/ebdb-gnorb/ebdb-gnorb.el:30:1: Error: Cannot open load file:
>> Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type, ebdb-format
>>   make: *** [GNUmakefile:173: packages/ebdb-gnorb/ebdb-gnorb.elc] Error 1
>>
>> I'm not sure what to do with both these errors, thanks for any hint.
>
> Don't know about that one, better ask the author/maintainer of
> ebdb-gnorb.

I'm hoping this was just a knock-on error from the first error. If you
pull the elpa repository cleanly and still get this error, please let me
know. TBH this package probably doesn't need to exist, it's a holdover
from back when I didn't know how to do between-package packages.