Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-13 Thread stephen joseph butler
I don't know if anyone's noticed this yet, but... in today's OS X update (10.4.9) Apple upgraded their tar package to 1.16.1. charon:~ admin$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.16.1 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
stephen joseph butler wrote: I don't know if anyone's noticed this yet, but... in today's OS X update (10.4.9) Apple upgraded their tar package to 1.16.1. charon:~ admin$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.16.1 You might want to check which tar you're looking at via which tar. I get: $

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-11 Thread Koen van der Drift
No problems with gcc42. - Koen. On Mar 10, 2007, at 5:00 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Thanks to a patch written by vasi, there is now an experimental version of dpkg which should be compatible with the new tar, that is, it should not die even if tar encounters file changed as we

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-11 Thread Martin Costabel
Koen van der Drift wrote: No problems with gcc42. Did you still see file changed as we read it? With the patched version, it should still show up, only as a warning, not an error. -- Martin - Take Surveys. Earn Cash.

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-11 Thread Koen van der Drift
Yes: ... Writing control file... Writing package script postinst... Writing package script prerm... dpkg-deb -b root-gcc42-4.1.-20070221 /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/ binary-darwin-powerpc/languages dpkg-deb: building package `gcc42' in `/sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-11 Thread Martin Costabel
Koen van der Drift wrote: Yes: ... Writing control file... Writing package script postinst... Writing package script prerm... dpkg-deb -b root-gcc42-4.1.-20070221 /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/ binary-darwin-powerpc/languages dpkg-deb: building package `gcc42' in

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Thanks to a patch written by vasi, there is now an experimental version of dpkg which should be compatible with the new tar, that is, it should not die even if tar encounters file changed as we read it. I would appreciate some testing on this, particularly from those of you who managed to

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-04 Thread Koen van der Drift
So gcc finally finished, and I got the same error. Here's the output as requested: dpkg-deb -b root-gcc4-4.1.-20060617 /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/ binary-darwin-powerpc/languages dpkg-deb: building package `gcc4' in `/sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-04 Thread David Fang
Because mysql takes not so much time to build compared to gcc4, I tried that one first with the new tar. On my system it build and installed without an error. Right now I am building gcc4. Once that is done in a couple of hours, I will let you know how it went. Hi all, Even though I

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-04 Thread David Fang
Let me know if you still need more data points. Using your diagnostic 'tar', gcc42 died during packaging [1] (Core Duo, 10.4.8): Writing control file... Writing package script postinst... Writing package script prerm... dpkg-deb -b root-gcc42-4.1.-20070221

[Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-03 Thread Martin Costabel
Could those of you who have or had the dpkg-deb failure caused by tar-1.16.1 claiming file changed as we read it please help with debugging this? Based on the outcome of these tests, we should be able to decide whether we need to patch tar or dpkg, or whether we need to dig further down.

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-03 Thread Koen van der Drift
Because mysql takes not so much time to build compared to gcc4, I tried that one first with the new tar. On my system it build and installed without an error. Right now I am building gcc4. Once that is done in a couple of hours, I will let you know how it went. - Koen. On Mar 3, 2007, at

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-03 Thread Charles Lepple
On 3/3/07, Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could those of you who have or had the dpkg-deb failure caused by tar-1.16.1 claiming file changed as we read it please help with debugging this? Sure. I have been rebuilding stuff all morning with this version of tar, and I haven't

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-03 Thread Daniel Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 3, 2007, at 3:52 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Could those of you who have or had the dpkg-deb failure caused by tar-1.16.1 claiming file changed as we read it please help with debugging this? Based on the outcome of these tests, we

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-03 Thread Charles Lepple
Martin, I'd be curious to see how far those ctimes are from the current time(). Can you post your patch? On 3/3/07, Daniel Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 3, 2007, at 3:52 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Could those of you who have or had

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-03 Thread Martin Costabel
Charles Lepple wrote: Martin, I'd be curious to see how far those ctimes are from the current time(). Can you post your patch? They are just printed out with format %i. To get the real time, you can run these numbers through /bin/date -r: % /bin/date -r 1172946146 Sat Mar 3 19:22:26 CET

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-03 Thread Charles Lepple
On 3/3/07, Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Lepple wrote: Martin, I'd be curious to see how far those ctimes are from the current time(). Can you post your patch? They are just printed out with format %i. To get the real time, you can run these numbers through /bin/date

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-03 Thread Martin Costabel
Charles Lepple wrote: On 3/3/07, Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Lepple wrote: Martin, I'd be curious to see how far those ctimes are from the current time(). Can you post your patch? They are just printed out with format %i. To get the real time, you can run these