packaging

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Thanks, Alan.  I'll pass that along.  FWIW, I doubt it is a bug in  
Solaris' tar given that gnutar is alright with the file passed as an  
argument, but not through stdin... it's quite an odd bug.

On a related note, I'm having to repackage these tarballs for Apple.   
In case anyone ever notices that the tarballs distributed by Apple  
open source differ in size/checksum from x.org's official releases,  
this is why.

--Jeremy

On Feb 12, 2008, at 23:21, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

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

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