On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 1:38 PM, Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Scott James Remnant, le mer 19 jan 2005 11:35:51 +0000, a dit : >> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 12:02 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >>> So as to have proper file name encoding, I'm used to have >>> TAR_OPTIONS=--format=posix >>> But then built packages don't work: >>> >> I think this is a dup of the above bug. If that patch doesn't work, >> please unmerge these bugs. > > It doesn't. Doing some gdb showed me that the first tar entry has > h.Type 'x', which is unknown. Here is the printing of the first > header: (gdb) p *(TarHeader *)block > $10 = {Name = "./PaxHeaders.28427/.", '\0' <repeats 79 times>, GNU tar indeed does not understand `x' (or any other lower-case letter) as a valid file type. See the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/04/msg01376.html for a fuller discussion. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]