On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 18:19 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > I can thus confirm that the files that were tarred using the sarge > version of tar, unpacked to a corrupt file with a wrong size, regarless > of the tar version used to untar the archive. I am tagging this bug > accordingly.
Thanks for your help on this. I guess my advice for sarge users is to not trust the sparse option of the sarge version tar for creating archives. I'm less bothered about this than I might be because I think the sparse option probably isn't helping much (and could be hurting performance) if the resulting archive is going to be gzip or bzip2 compressed anyway. If someone is motivated to isolate the problem and generate a minimal patch for the sarge version of tar, let me know, otherwise I do not plan to spend any more time on this bug. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
