Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 08:37:55 GMT From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@freebsd.org> To: <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (bsd)tar is broken on 6.1 Message-ID: <200605260837.k4Q8btpl031485@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4476457A.5050800@alumni.rice.edu> References: <200605251845.k4PIjdx7070553@freefall.freebsd.org> <4476457A.5050800@alumni.rice.edu>
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>>>>> Jonathan Noack writes: > Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: >> # tar cf /dev/null X11R6.old >> # archive_write_pax_header: 'x' header failed?! This can't happen. > This seems to work fine here: > [noackjr@optimator:/usr] $ uname -rm > 6.1-RELEASE i386 > [noackjr@optimator:/usr] $ tar --version > bsdtar 1.02.023, libarchive 1.02.026 > Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Tim Kientzle > [noackjr@optimator:/usr] $ tar cf /dev/null X11R6 > [noackjr@optimator:/usr] $ Sure, but the directories are not the same. I have narrowed the problem to a specific subdirectory and I think I have the explanation: -rw-r--r-- 1 jmz jmz 4312 Apr 16 1947 supclkrd.prg Don't ask me why the date is wrong, this is really old stuff :-) On the other hand tar has no problem extracting it. If someone wants to debug it, the archive is available as http://people.freebsd.org/~jmz/a.tar Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org [KeyID: 400B38E9]
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