FreeBSD tar errors on valid empty tar.gz

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Thu Jan 10 16:06:37 PST 2008


On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:55:52PM -0000, Steven Hartland wrote:
> A totally empty file is not valid try the following test:-
> >touch empty
> >tar cvzf test.tar.gz --files-from empty
> >tar tvzf test.tar.gz 
> >tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format
> >tar --version
> >bsdtar 1.2.53 - libarchive 1.2.53
> >gtar tvzf test.tar.gz
> >gtar --version
> >tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1
> 
> Tested on: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p9

Please send-pr this so tkientzle@ can take action on it.

Edwin

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