Re: (bsd)tar is broken on 6.1

On 05/26/06 04:37, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:
Jonathan Noack writes:

> Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:
>> # tar cf /dev/null X11R6.old
>> # archive_write_pax_header: 'x' header failed?! This can't happen.

> This seems to work fine here:
> [noackjr@optimator:/usr] $ uname -rm
> 6.1-RELEASE i386
> [noackjr@optimator:/usr] $ tar --version
> bsdtar 1.02.023, libarchive 1.02.026
> Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Tim Kientzle
> [noackjr@optimator:/usr] $ tar cf /dev/null X11R6
> [noackjr@optimator:/usr] $

Sure, but the directories are not the same.

As you provided no details in your original email, I was forced to
assume that the problem was in the use of /dev/null (I used the X11R6
directory for fun). I was mistaken, but remember that not *all* of us
can read your mind... :)

I have narrowed the problem to a specific subdirectory and I think I
have the explanation:

-rw-r--r-- 1 jmz jmz 4312 Apr 16 1947 supclkrd.prg

Don't ask me why the date is wrong, this is really old stuff :-)

On the other hand tar has no problem extracting it. If someone wants
to debug it, the archive is available as
http://people.freebsd.org/~jmz/a.tar

I see the same thing here. Touching supclkrd.prg to bring the date
current makes the problem go away.

Tim, any thoughts?

-Jonathan

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