FreeBSD tar errors on valid empty tar.gz

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Thu Jan 10 16:30:40 PST 2008


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kris Kennaway" <kris at FreeBSD.org>
> 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
> 
> OK, so it's already fixed?

Not that I'm aware of. gtar works but libarchive tar fails on
the file it created.

    Regards
    Steve


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