> Invalid header block at offset unknown at > /export/u0/sourceware/sourceware/libre/infra/bin/cygwin/Cygwin/Setup/Listing.pm > > line 186
> I've been noticing this error message for a couple of days. > I wonder if it has something to do with the new version of tar? Perhaps so. I'll certainly look closer at it when I get some more free time, if you don't solve it first. Right now, I have to get back to work (my lunch break is ending). > > So far, it has cropped up for monotone, coreutils, and, now, w32api. > Unpacking/repacking the files on sourceware.org seems to "fix" the > problem. So, except for the warnings, bunzip2 likes the files before and after the unpack, and is just vocal about the original .bz2? Did you keep a copy of the original, to compare the before-and-after files? > > Can the maintainers of these pacakges please confirm/deny if they've > been using tar-1.15.90-1? If not, I'll have to investigate what has > changed on sourceware.org recently. Yes, I used tar-1.15.90-1 to package coreutils-5.94-5 on a binary cygwin mount, then used the same cygwin version of tar to create a bzip2 compressed upload to a stdout pipe to a matching tar on sourceware.org unpacking from stdin to do my upload. -- Eric Blake
