Michael> We recently ran into an issue on packaging our own Michael> software where Sun's tar (Solaris 2.7) can not read tar Michael> files created by gnu's tar (version 1.12). It seems to be Michael> related to how gnu's tar stores very long file names. I Michael> do not know which software is wrong, and even if their is Michael> any standard other than defacto standard on tar formats. That rings a bell. It's very faint though. Does anyone on xemacs-beta remember this issue? Michael> Our solution was to use Sun's tar to create the tar file, Michael> and then compress using gzip; with that strategy both gnu Michael> tar and Sun tar can decode the files. Michael> My question to you: is the 'tar' you are using gnu's tar, Michael> or the tar supplied with your operating system? gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93) Compilation options: DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H ASMV tar (GNU tar) 1.13.18 Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License; see the file named COPYING for details. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. Both downloaded as part of Cygwin tools installed by means of http://cygwin.com/setup.exe I am on Windows NT 4 SP 5. Hope this helps, Adrian Michael> -mac Michael> Adrian Aichner writes: Steve> The good news is that I have replaced all the packages in Steve> Pre-Releases with ones built with a working byte-compiler. Steve> Oh, and I snuck in a couple of minor updates to a couple of Steve> packages. Steve> Go get 'em! They're in Steve> ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/experimental/packages/ >> Some more bad news for a change: >> pkginfo/MANIFEST.ada >> lisp/ada/ChangeLog >> lisp/ada/_pkg.el >> lisp/ada/ada-mode.el >> lisp/ada/ada-mode.elc >> tar: Skipping to next header >> tar: 260 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive >> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >> This can be confirmed by dired/tar/gzip: >> -rw-r--r-- steve/users 247 2001-01-15 07:50:05 pkginfo/MANIFEST.ada >> -rw-r--r-- steve/users 467 2000-10-06 10:55:25 lisp/ada/ChangeLog >> -rw-r--r-- steve/users 73 2001-01-15 07:36:38 lisp/ada/_pkg.el >> -rw-r--r-- steve/users 125576 2000-10-06 10:55:25 lisp/ada/ada-mode.el >> -rw-r--r-- steve/users 51691 2001-01-15 07:50:03 lisp/ada/ada-mode.elc >> tar: Skipping to next header >> tar: 260 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive >> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >> This is scarey! >> I saw this problem for a number of packages last time I tried and >> therefor picked a package I don't need (ada) today. >> Anybody else seeing this problem? >> Best regards, >> Adrian Steve> I'd like to release these packages to the public this time Steve> next week, so if you find anything that's broken please let Steve> me know. Steve> -- Steve> |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| Steve> | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | Steve> | It's a way of life. | Steve> |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---| >> -- >> Adrian Aichner >> mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org >> http://www.xemacs.org/ -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/