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error: error while reading package on MacOS #30

Closed EimaMei closed 2 years ago

EimaMei commented 3 years ago

When I was trying to install 3DS development on my iMac, it always gave me this specific error when I entered sudo dkp-pacman -S 3ds-dev:

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                                  [##########################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                                       [##########################################################] 100%
error: error while reading package /opt/devkitpro/pacman/var/cache/pacman/pkg/3ds-examples-20210610-1-any.pkg.tar.xz: Pathname can't be converted from UTF-8 to current locale.
error: failed to commit transaction (libarchive error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I didn't understand why this was happening, since I was able to download the wii development on the same computer and it had no trouble. Then I tried installing each 3DS member on its own, and I realized that the error was coming from 2) 3ds-examples every time because it always gave me that specific error mentioned above, while the others installed fine with no problem. Even though I know what's causing the error, I still don't know how to fix it.

fincs commented 3 years ago

What's your locale's text encoding? Fwiw, the 3ds-examples package contains a folder with Japanese characters in order to show that RomFS supports arbitrary Unicode codepoints in path names and is not restricted to ASCII's 0-127. For reference, UTF-8 is normally the text encoding used in modern Unix like operating systems such as macOS.

EimaMei commented 3 years ago

Sorry but I don't know how I can check my locale's text encoding (if I did, I would have probably known why I got that error, which I didn't). How can I check it?

WinterMute commented 3 years ago

I managed to reproduce this on my macbook & I've updated the package. Still investigating what exactly is causing the issue but hopefully the latest version works for you. You can update with sudo dkp-pacman -Syu Let us know if that works or you still have problems.

EimaMei commented 3 years ago

Using sudo dkp-pacman -Syu and then sudo dkp-pacman -S 3ds-dev, it worked and I was able to download the 3ds packges! I was even able to only download the 3ds-example package without getting that error.

WinterMute commented 2 years ago

Was prompted to look at this again recently after encountering a similar issue & I'm not pretty sure we've solved this permanently.