Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 19:00:00 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bug in BSD tar? Message-ID: <20070530020000.GC4602@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <004601c7a257$09cc58f0$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <465B9BA3.30905@freebsd.org> <00fe01c7a1de$aff18080$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20070529231536.GA4602@funkthat.com> <004601c7a257$09cc58f0$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
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Steven Hartland wrote this message on Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:08 +0100:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John-Mark Gurney" <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
> >Is the file incorrect when extracted? or is this a mater of gtar throwing
> >an error because of the tar format, and an option to bsdtar could be
> >provided
> >to change the output tar format?
>
> The file is correct when extracted but gtar is, as you say, throwing
> an error because of the tar format. The exit error is the issue as in
> a scripted environment, as we have, the error causes the failure of the
> whole operation.
Have you tried the --format argument to bsdtar? Maybe ustar or pax
will make gtar happier...
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