Colour me embarrassed, I forget the z option when I created the tar file. But you can just do:
tar -xf efw-devel-1.1.tar.gz since the one you downloaded wasn't actually compressed. I've replaced the tar file with a compressed one to eliminate future confusion. ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Igor Mikolic-Torreira" <igormtn...@comcast.net> | To: efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net | Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 9:21:26 AM | Subject: Re: [Efw-user] EFW Developer Environment Released | | Robert, | | I consistently get errors trying to unpack your version 1.1. | Specifically: | | $ tar -xzf efw-devel-1.1.tar.gz | gzip: stdin: not in gzip format | tar: Child returned status 1 | tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now | $ | | I've downloaded it several times and tried difference | computers -- always the same error. | | Igor | | | | On 11/17/2012 07:04 AM, Robert B. Nelson wrote: | > I just released version 1.1 of the Developer Environment. | > | > This new version incorporates the additional SRPMs missing | > from the initial 2.5.1 source archive. | > | > It eliminates the patched SRPMs reducing the size by 25%, | > patched SRPMs are created during setup instead. | > | > Support for multiple releases of packages within a single | > directory are now handled properly with the latest one being | > used. | > | > ------------------------------------------------------------ | > | > *From: *"Robert B. Nelson" <robe...@the-nelsons.org> | > *To: *efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net | > *Sent: *Wednesday, November 14, 2012 9:46:30 AM | > *Subject: *EFW Developer Environment Released | > | > I've finished the first release of the Developer | > Environment for Endian Firewall Community version 2.5.1. | > | > I created a project for it on my gforge site: | > http://gforge.opensource-sw.net/gf/project/efw-devel. | > | > There is a single tar file to download from the Files | > section. | > | > efw-devel-1.0.tar.gz | > | > The instructions for installing it are: | > | > First install the released version of EFW using Gateway | > for the RED zone. Enable SSH and connect to the server. | > | > On the newly installed developer machine, run the | > following commands: | > | > 1)efw-upgrade (select 2 Development) | > 2)curl | > -O | > http://gforge.opensource-sw.net/gf/download/frsrelease/29/130/efw-devel-1.0.tar.gz | > 3)tar -C /var -xf efw-devel.tar.gz | > 4)pushd /var/efw-devel | > 5)./retrieve-srpms | > 6)popd | > 7)/var/efw-devel/setup-devel | > 8)/var/efw-devel/build-pkgs | > 9)/var/efw-devel/build-iso /var/tmp/efw.iso | > | > You should now have a new iso image suitable for installing. | > | > You can also browse the source for EFW in the vendor | > directory of the SVN section of the project. I unpacked | > all the SRPMS so you can view the spec files and patches | > directly. For the packages that are specific to EFW, I | > also expanded the source TARs and applied the patches so | > you can view the actual source code without downloading | > and installing the SRPMs. | > | > The changes I had to make to the SRPMs, to get them to | > build, are in the trunk directory in SVN. | > | > Currently the documentation is the shell script files | > themselves :-) | > | > | > | > | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | > Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a | > single | > web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, | > vmware, | > SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. | > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! | > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov | > | > | > | > _______________________________________________ | > Efw-user mailing list | > Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net | > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user | > | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single | web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, | vmware, | SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. | Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! | http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov | _______________________________________________ | Efw-user mailing list | Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
