On Wed, Sep 13, 2006, Caleb Epstein wrote: > On 9/13/06, Caleb Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm unable to build this package on Solaris 10 due to weird UID/GID > >values in the WWW-Search tar file: > > Sorry, I guess this was perl-www, not perl-xml but the problem still > stands. Openpkg's built-in tar doesn't appear to be able to handle > the WWW-Search tarball. Solaris /bin/tar is fine with it. I think > its a signed/unsigned integer issue:
Yes, the value 4294967295 tar complains about is (2^32)-1. BSD tar, GNU tar and star all seem to at least _see_ that the WWW-Search-2.489.tar.gz tarball has some strange things in it. But I've no clue why Solaris tar happily displays 400/401 here. As the tarballs nevertheless unpack correctly (except for the user/group ownerships which are of no interest to us anyway) I've now applied two really ugly workarounds to resolve this issue: http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=30041 Ralf S. Engelschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
