Extracting tgz file: Attempt to write to an empty file

Tim Kientzle kientzle at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 7 16:53:36 UTC 2010


On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> I see these errors when tar (not limited to but including the version
> from FreeBSD -current)
> 
> # bsdtar -xf ~/arch.tgz
> ./: Attempt to write to an empty file
> ./.cpan/: Attempt to write to an empty file
> ./.cpan/CPAN/: Attempt to write to an empty file
> ./.cpan/build/: Attempt to write to an empty file

I just committed a fix to -CURRENT (r216258).

Please try it and let me know if this fixes the problem for you.

Tim



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