packaging
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Tue Feb 12 23:21:03 PST 2008
Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> I'm trying to track down a bug in tar. Could someone provide me with
> any information about the version of tar used to 'make dist'
> libXmu-1.0.4.tar.bz2? It's not specific to libXmu... I'm seeing this
> issue with many recent tarballs from x.org:
>
> $ bunzip2 -dc libXmu-1.0.4.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -
> tar: Read 1536 bytes from -
>
> 'tar -xjf libXmu-1.0.4.tar.bz2' works fine. Repackaging it seems to
> work as well. Using a newer version of tar to extract it works, too...
> unfortunately due to licensing issues, updating to a GPL3 version of
> gnutar to fix the problem is not possible... so I just want to figure
> out how the tarball was made in an attempt to figure out a fix.
I use Solaris tar for the tarballs I build, which includes libXmu-1.0.4.
The only incompatibility I knew of between it and gtar was the handling
of paths longer than 100 characters.
Source for Solaris tar is browsable at:
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/tar/
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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