ANN: PortAuthority 2.5 released

[Kevin Walzer]

David L Ballenger wrote:
> I'm also having trouble with the download of PortAuthority, at least 
> with Safari.  This is on a MacBook Pro with 10.5.1.
> 
> If I download with Safari, I get PortAuthority.dmg.bz2.  If I double 
> click on that file in the Finder I get a PortAuthority.dmg.bz2.cpgz file.
> 
> Running bunzip2 -t on PortAuthority.dmg.bz2 gives:
> 
> bunzip2: PortAuthority.dmg.bz2: trailing garbage after EOF ignored
> 
> If I then do bunzip2 -d it gives the same error message but produces a 
> .dmg. However, trying to mount the .dmg gives a no mountable file system 
> error message.
> 
> Changing the setting of Safari preference "Open safe files after 
> downloading" didn't seem to have an effect on this.
> 
> However, if I download it with Firefox I get a mountable .dmg file with 
> a usable PortAuthrority.
> 
>     -David

Unfortunately, I can't confirm this on my end--the file downloads via 
Safari and mounts fine for me.

I have encountered errors such as this on a random basis with other 
DMG's. Sometimes removing the .bz2 suffix solves the problem--the DMG 
then mounts without trouble.

-- 
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com