We recently ran into an issue on packaging our own software where
Sun's tar (Solaris 2.7) can not read tar files created by gnu's
tar (version 1.12). It seems to be related to how gnu's tar stores
very long file names. I do not know which software is wrong, and even
if their is any standard other than defacto standard on tar formats.
Our solution was to use Sun's tar to create the tar file, and then
compress using gzip; with that strategy both gnu tar and Sun tar can
decode the files.
My question to you: is the 'tar' you are using gnu's tar, or the tar
supplied with your operating system?
-mac
Adrian Aichner writes:
>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Youngs
<youngs(a)xemacs.org> 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> --
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