On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:52:04AM -0700, Michael Loftis enlightened us: > --On March 31, 2006 1:36:36 PM -0500 Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >That doesn't mean that 1.15 should be required by the spec file. tar 1.14 > >from Redhat works just fine > >(see https://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html) > > > I don't know about Redhat tar 1.14 but GNU tar 1.14 is severely broken. It > 'seems' to create ok archives, but in reality a lot of the time creates > garbage even it can't read. Tan into this quite a bit, one symptom is the > 'invalid base64 header' error.
Right, Redhat has backported the fixes from 1.15.1 to 1.14. Which is why using a version number to ensure compatability is not a good idea IMHO. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263