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Re: An all-new upset error message - tar related?
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:04:41 +0000
- Subject: 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