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Re: setup.exe: Invalid or unsupported tar format
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:57:03 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: setup.exe: Invalid or unsupported tar format
--- Brian Dessent ha scritto:
> > The setup.exe source (install.cc,
> Installer::installOne) looks like it
> > expects an error peeking from try_decompress in
> this situation, but
> > running in the debugger shows
> try_decompress->peek() successfully
> > reading '0'. Note that if you bunzip2 the empty
> package, you get a 10K
> > tarball which is all zeroes, so success isn't
> completely unexpected...
>
$ tar --show-defaults
--format=gnu -f- -b20 --quoting-style=escape
--rmt-command=/usr/sbin/rmt.exe
--rsh-command=/usr/bin/rsh
$ ls -lrt
10240 May 6 11:30 prova1.tar
my guess 20*512= 10240 bytes
Regards
Marco
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