Extracting tgz file: Attempt to write to an empty file

Sergey Kandaurov pluknet at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 16:54:47 UTC 2010


On 7 December 2010 19:53, Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

I applied the fix to 8.1-RELEASE, and am fine with it.
No more "Attempt to write..". Thanks!

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