On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:11:32AM -0400, Peter Prymmer wrote: > I presume you wanted to test out a recently created tar kit.
Correct > I recommend that instead of extracting filename.tar with this: > > tar -xvf filename.tar > > that you do the following: > > tar /extract/verbose/date=none filename.tar > > so that the /date_policy does not get confused about the extracted > file or directory timestamps. I did this (after deleting the previous tree), and see the same failures. The problem seems to be down to created files. Which smells much like the problems I know I've seen building over NFS on Unix with mismatched clocks. I mailed the testdrive support folks, and they say that they don't attempt to synchronise the clocks on the VMS clusters. Their simpler recommendation was to not build across the cluster, which means that I need to work out which (if any) machines have filespace accessible to me that is on the local machine. Nicholas Clark
