packaging

[Alan Coopersmith]

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> I'm trying to track down a bug in tar.  Could someone provide me with 
> any information about the version of tar used to 'make dist' 
> libXmu-1.0.4.tar.bz2?  It's not specific to libXmu... I'm seeing this 
> issue with many recent tarballs from x.org:
> 
> $ bunzip2 -dc libXmu-1.0.4.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -
> tar: Read 1536 bytes from -
> 
> 'tar -xjf libXmu-1.0.4.tar.bz2' works fine.  Repackaging it seems to 
> work as well.  Using a newer version of tar to extract it works, too... 
> unfortunately due to licensing issues, updating to a GPL3 version of 
> gnutar to fix the problem is not possible... so I just want to figure 
> out how the tarball was made in an attempt to figure out a fix.

I use Solaris tar for the tarballs I build, which includes libXmu-1.0.4.
The only incompatibility I knew of between it and gtar was the handling
of paths longer than 100 characters.

Source for Solaris tar is browsable at:
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/tar/

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     -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
      Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering