bug in BSD tar?

John-Mark Gurney gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu
Wed May 30 02:00:03 UTC 2007


Steven Hartland wrote this message on Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:08 +0100:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John-Mark Gurney" <gurney_j at 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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