Hi, I dont know if this is already a fixed bug, nor if it is a bug of solaris tar or gnu tar. I have Sparc Solaris 5.9 coming with its own tar and installed gnu tar version 1.14 for sparc sol 9 (sunfreeware.com)
I created a directory: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza/abc/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw and a simple text file within it: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbb.txt I called gnu tar to create the tar file /usr/local/bin/tar -cf abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza.tar abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza and then I called (suns tar for unpacking or listing) /usr/bin/tar -tf abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza.tar and get the following: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza/ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza/abc/ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza/abc/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw/ ././@LongLink abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza/abc/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa If I call (suns tar) /usr/bin/tar -xf abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza.tar I get the error: tar: directory checksum error Unpacking with the gnu tar works. But if I create the tar file with suns tar, then unpacking works with the gnu tar AND with suns tar. Best Regards, David
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