I haven't used the tarball in years because I simply find hg more convenient, but a few times when I have recommended somebody to install p9p they have complained about problems unpacking the tarball, I just tell them to do a fresh hg checkout instead, and that usually works for them. Maybe they are simply confused by whatever errors gnu tar spews for who knows what reason, but people that have no problems with other tarballs do have problems with the p9p tarballs, and it has been going on for a while.
uriel On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Russ Cox<r...@swtch.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Uriel<urie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Always get p9p from hg, the tarballs have been partially broken for >> ages and > > Excuse me? > Instead of keeping that to yourself why not tell me so I can fix it? > I know many people who install from the tar file, though, > so I expect you're just whining instead of checking the facts, > as usual. > >> always have problems being untared in some environments > > Again, details? > > FreeBSD: > holo=; hget http://swtch.com/plan9port/plan9port.tgz | gunzip | tar xf - > holo=; ls -lR plan9 | awk '/^-/ {s+=$5} END{print s}' > 49413465 > holo=; > > Linux: > c2=; gunzip < plan9port.tgz | tar xf - > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' > c2=; ls -lR plan9 | awk '/^-/ {s+=$5} END{print s}' > 49413465 > c2=; > > OS X: > mini=; gunzip < plan9port.tgz | tar xf - > mini=; ls -lR plan9 | awk '/^-/ {s+=$5} END{print s}' > 49342685 > mini=; > > The GNU tar warnings about SCHILY extensions don't count as > a problem: it's an inconsequential warning message. > > The missing 70780 bytes on OS X are the files HI, HX, LH, RC, lH, and rH > from troff/font/devutf/charlib, which have been overwritten with differently > cased versions of the same files. It doesn't matter since basically > no one uses those special characters, and you'd have the same problem > using Hg or any other file program: the bug is in the file system, not > the extractor. > > I'm plenty happy for people to use hg instead of the tar files-- > I think that's good advice for the people who enjoy using > version control systems--but please don't go spreading > misinformation. > > Thanks. > Russ > >
