Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:35:21 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdtar errors storing uid/gids > 16777214 Message-ID: <414A7799.5000501@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040917040950.GA52634@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20040917040950.GA52634@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > It looks like bsdtar will create extended header entries for attributes > that would overflow the regular file header, but for the gid and uid > cases, it doesn't zero out the regular fields, and > __archive_write_format_header_ustar() ends up failing. This bit me > when portupgrading kdebase, which installs kdesud with a group name of > "nogroup", which is -2 (aka 4294967294) on my system. Good catch! I've just committed a revised version of your patch (that more correctly handles a couple of obscure bits of trivia). Many thanks. > Also, there's a formatting error in tar/read.c that ends up misaligning > the date column. %Y is 4 chars wide, but %R is 5, so the format string > with %R in it needs to lose a space. Yes, I've known about this one for a while, but decided to put off this (and a few other cosmetic fixes) until after 5.3. Thanks! Tim Kientzle
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