Subject: Re: problems with 0.7.12 source tarballs
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2000 - 15:25:14 CST
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Sam TH wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:35:30PM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had problems with 0.7.12 source tarballs available at download section.
> > Each .tar.gz is padded with zeros to the length that has a factor of 256.
> > This leads to tar reporting error when unpacking it, and also leads to
> > inability to open that .tar.gz with Midnight Commander (and thus gmc and very
> > likely Konqerror and kfm).
> >
> > Just curious, what software created them.
>
> This was created like so:
>
> tar cz abi/ > abi.tar.gz
>
> and so on. I can recreate them in a bit.
Just checked your way - it really produces files with zeros appended.
Please repack them using
tar czf abi.tar.gz abi
- they won't have junk at the end (and the size will be different).
I think a bug against tar should be filed...
> Thanks
> sam th
> sam@uchicago.edu
> http://www.abisource.com/~sam
> GnuPG Key:
> http://www.abisource.com/~sam/key
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
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