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Re: An all-new upset error message - tar related?


> Invalid header block at offset unknown at 
> /export/u0/sourceware/sourceware/libre/infra/bin/cygwin/Cygwin/Setup/Listing.pm 
> line 186

> I've been noticing this error message for a couple of days.
> I wonder if it has something to do with the new version of tar?

Perhaps so.  I'll certainly look closer at it when I get some more free
time, if you don't solve it first.  Right now, I have to get back to work
(my lunch break is ending).

> 
> So far, it has cropped up for monotone, coreutils, and, now, w32api.
> Unpacking/repacking the files on sourceware.org seems to "fix" the
> problem.

So, except for the warnings, bunzip2 likes the files before and
after the unpack, and is just vocal about the original .bz2?  Did
you keep a copy of the original, to compare the before-and-after files?

> 
> Can the maintainers of these pacakges please confirm/deny if they've
> been using tar-1.15.90-1?  If not, I'll have to investigate what has
> changed on sourceware.org recently.

Yes, I used tar-1.15.90-1 to package coreutils-5.94-5 on a binary
cygwin mount, then used the same cygwin version of tar to create a
bzip2 compressed upload to a stdout pipe to a matching tar on
sourceware.org unpacking from stdin to do my upload.

-- 
Eric Blake


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