bsdtar doesn't work with ports backup of libsigc++20

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Nov 14 14:25:01 PST 2004


On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0800, Sean McNeil wrote:
> I was doing a complete rebuild of my system and ran into a problem with
> bsdtar:
> 
> portupgrade -f libsigc++-2.0.3
> 
> --->  Backing up the old version
> tar: share/doc/libsigc-2.0/docs/reference/html/classsigc_1_1signal_3_01T__return_00_01T__arg1_00_01T__arg2_00_01T__arg3_00_01T__arg4_00_01T__arg5_00_01T__arg6_01_4-members.html: (null)
> ** Backup failed.
> 
> switching over to gtar and it works.

I saw a similar error on one machine, but not others, so my hypothesis
is that it was only broken for a short period of time.  You didn't
mention how old your world is, but try rebuilding it.

Kris
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