I just downloaded Squeak4.5-13680.zip, unzipped it, and selected "Update
Squeak".  It updated to 13696 just fine; no errors.

When are you seeing the empty mcz message?

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 19.01.2015, at 18:37, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > More scary is when they would encounter a corrupted (empty) package.
> That message is intending to help us debug why that is happening..
> >
>
> We had this going on fore some while and I cannot
> remember what the fix was in this case. Anyway,
> an up-to-date Squeak 4.5 would surely help.
>
> Best
>         -Tobias
>
>
>
>
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > can somebody please copy a vanilla yet recent 4.5 to the
> > ftp/files server? The current one we can get there still
> > has this 'About to serialize empty package' weirdness and
> > we sure do not want to scare away people who just
> > hit the update button with such a message…
> >
> > Best
> >        -Tobias
>
>
>
>
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