On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:56:25AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Typing furiously on March 05, Bill Campbell managed to emit: >> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:34:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >> >It works here on my tar: >> > >> >$ tar --version >> >tar-1.13.19 >> >> What distribution? Can you point to SRPMS so I can compare with >> the Caldera versions? I have a RedHat 7.1 system here reporting >> that size, but the Source CD doesn't have SRPMS for tar-1.13.19-4. > >Red Hat 7.2.
That's what I thought. I couldn't find the tar SRPM on my Red Hat 7.1 CD set so downloaded it from Red Hat's ftp site. I built that on Caldera OpenLinux 3.1, and that solved the problem. >> It isn't the tape drive. I've looked at the source enough to see >> that this is in the basic getopts processing, long before it even >> looks at the tape. It fails without looking at the ``-b'' option >> so specify block size. > >Ah. Well, I haven't looked at the source code. No time. I took a quick look at comparing diffs between 1.12 and 1.13, but there was far too much for me to dig into, particularly after getting the Red Hat package, rebuilding it. This took a bit of tweaking for Caldera, but not a lot. I've since rebuilt the modified SRPMS on OpenLinux 1.3, 2.3, eServer 2.3, eDesktop 2.4, and Workstation 3.1. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``If you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you'' -- Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
