Tar: directory checksum error

[Claude PICHOU]

Sorry so much Jerry.

It works fine with GNU Tar. I should have think to it while reading the
output of the 'tar tvf ..'.


Apologize for the trouble.
Thanks


PS: from me to you , it was sounding very strange to me that such error
could have actually occurred !!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry James [mailto:james at xemacs.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:24 PM
To: Claude PICHOU
Cc: xemacs-beta at xemacs.org; Marc BENVENISTE
Subject: Re: Tar: directory checksum error


Claude PICHOU <claude.pichou at st.com>, on Wed, 25 Aug 2004 at 16:15:02
+0200 you wrote:
> I hope it's the right place for such notification.

It is.

> I have carefully downloaded the xemacs-sumo.tar.gz package from several
ftp mirror sites on my solaris box but always get the same trouble
hereafter.
>
> The gunzip command doesn't complain to uncompress the file but when I
untar it I always get the :
>
> "Tar: directory checksum error"
>
> message.
>
> Moreover, a tar tvf successfully displays the list content of the archive.
In the same way, the same process work fine on the xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz.
>
> I suspect that the original TAR file is corrupted in one way or another.

Are you using native Solaris tar?  Solaris tar and GNU tar have
different ideas about how long pathnames should be encoded.  If you have
GNU tar handy or can build it easily, would you give that a try?

Thanks,
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~james/