Re: Checksum error untaring xemacs-sumo-2005-01-18.tar
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005, Stephen J. Turnbull stated:
>>>>> "viteno" == Norbert Koch
<viteno(a)xemacs.org> writes:
viteno> Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>> Does anyone remember how to remedy this on the sender side? Is
>> it pathnames that are too long? ??
viteno> Well, I don't know :-( I could use BSD tar the next time,
viteno> but this might give other problems ...
Please stick to GNU tar unless you have good reason to believe you're
not changing one set of problems for another. ISTR that there is a
standard for tar including long path names, now, but that nobody
implements it yet.
I think tar 1.14 and above can do it:
,----[ tar-1.15.1/NEWS ]
| version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11
|
| * Added support for POSIX.1-2001 and ustar archive formats.
`----
and I'm pretty sure that the weird alpha versions of GNU tar 1.13 that
most distributors are shipping can unpack these. (I tested Debian
testing's version; I can test Debian stable tomorrow.)
You do this with the --format=posix option to GNU tar, which I
*think* Solaris can understand.
(I'll check that tomorrow, too.)
IIRC, Solaris tar doesn't do long path names,
period, so we'd have to change our naming scheme to conform. :-(
If that's true, you're stuck.
More tomorrow.
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