From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 18:44:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7DA16A4CE; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:44:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1DC43D2F; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:44:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i74IibbG010005; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:44:38 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <41106C70.3010508@freebsd.org> References: <410F28E1.8080105@freebsd.org> <16655.43655.686564.873222@canoe.dclg.ca> <41106C70.3010508@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:44:37 -0400 To: David Gilbert From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: Tim Kientzle cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: tar -l is now (intentionally) broken. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:44:46 -0000 At 9:56 PM -0700 8/3/04, Tim Kientzle wrote: >David Gilbert wrote: >> >>[2:1:301]dgilbert@canoe:~> bsdtar -cvf temp .bashrc >>a .bashrc: tar format cannot archive this: Inappropriate file type or format >> > >Works here. Which means either there's something >weird going on at your end, or something weird going >on at my end. > >It's possible you managed to get it in the middle >of a cvs update, I suppose. Try updating again >and rebuilding src/lib/libarchive and src/usr.bin/tar >and let me know if that changes anything. > >Out of curiosity, what does "ls -l .bashrc" show? Other questions (which you may have already answered): What does "ls -l temp" show? If there is no "temp", then what result do you get from the command to "touch temp"? I'm just making some wild guesses here. The above tar command did also work for me, so I am just wondering if bsdtar is getting some OTHER error, and reporting the wrong error. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu