Date: 13 Dec 2004 08:21:52 -0000 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/75012: bsdtar refuses to handle some tar files Message-ID: <20041213082152.13690.qmail@mired.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200412130830.iBD8UOEA056358@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 75012 >Category: bin >Synopsis: bsdtar refuses to handle some tar files >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Dec 13 08:30:24 GMT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Mike Meyer >Release: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE i386 >Organization: Meyer Consulting >Environment: System: FreeBSD guru.mired.org 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: I've got a tar file that bsdtar refuses to process completely. It gets about halfway through it, and then blows up. gtar works just fine, and so does the standard tar on 4.6. Unfortunately, I can't let you have a copy of the tar file because it's licensed. You can get it via the web at http://www.acm.org/~perlman/stat/, but you have to agree to Perlmans license restrictions. >How-To-Repeat: Get the tar file from the above address, and try running tar on it on a 5.3 system. >Fix: The work around is to use gtar. But bsdtar ought to be fixed. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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