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Re: Please Upload: octave-2.1.71-2


On Aug 15 05:09, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> > When using setup.exe this morning, I got complaints from tar when
> > unpacking octave-forge: "error: unknown (or unsupported) file type `K'".
> > I believe this is coming from tar, meaning you packaged with a newer
> > version of tar than cygwin's current 1.13.25, using options that the older
> > tar chokes on.  Hopefully, this will go away when I get tar 1.15.1 working
> > (I'm still tracking down a textmode issue), but in the meantime, you may
> > want to consider repackaging.
> 
> Setup uses its own internal tar routines so the installed version of
> /bin/tar is irrelevent.  Still, it would be good to find out what
> version of tar created the archive and what option is causing the
> problem.

Regardless of setup using its own builtin tar, the octave packages on
sourceware can be untar'ed using tar 1.13.25 quite nicely.  Eric, did
you try another mirror?  Mayby it's just a broken mirror.


Corinna

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