OK, having done that I now get an error trying to download the snapshot tarballs: # Downloading "http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/snapshot/boost-CVS-HEAD.tar.bz2" to "/home/nbde52d/src/boost-regression"... # Looking for old unpacked archives... # Unpacking boost tarball ("/home/nbde52d/src/boost-regression/boost-CVS-HEAD.tar.bz2")... Traceback (most recent call last): File "regression.py", line 765, in ? commands[ command ]( **accept_args( args ) ) File "regression.py", line 607, in regression get_source( user, tag, proxy, [] ) File "regression.py", line 270, in get_source unpack_tarball( tarball_path, regression_root ) File "regression.py", line 169, in unpack_tarball tar = tarfile.open( tarball_path, 'r|%s' % mode ) File "/home/eqdev/tools/sunos-sparc-gcc/python-2.3.4/lib/python2.3/tarfile.py", line 886, in open _Stream(name, filemode, comptype, fileobj, bufsize)) File "/home/eqdev/tools/sunos-sparc-gcc/python-2.3.4/lib/python2.3/tarfile.py", line 810, in __init__ self.firstmember = self.next() File "/home/eqdev/tools/sunos-sparc-gcc/python-2.3.4/lib/python2.3/tarfile.py", line 1559, in next buf = self.fileobj.read(BLOCKSIZE) File "/home/eqdev/tools/sunos-sparc-gcc/python-2.3.4/lib/python2.3/tarfile.py", line 430, in read buf = self._read(size) File "/home/eqdev/tools/sunos-sparc-gcc/python-2.3.4/lib/python2.3/tarfile.py", line 446, in _read buf = self.cmp.decompress(buf) IOError: invalid data stream Checking with wget, it seems that this is not a valid URL: wget http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/snapshot/boost-CVS-HEAD.tar.bz2 --10:08:21-- http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/snapshot/boost-CVS-HEAD.tar.bz2 => `boost-CVS-HEAD.tar.bz2' Resolving proxy... done. Connecting to proxy[x.x.x.x]:8080... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Object Not Found 10:08:22 ERROR 404: Object Not Found. -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com