Hi Paul! [I resent this message without the attachments it originally had because it bounced at gnu.org]
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:26:06 -0700 you wrote: > Sebastian Kaps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So, to my understanding, there must have been a change in the code that >> creates archives in oldgnu-format before the 1.16 version of tar. > Yes, that sounds right. Can you isolate the problem and send details > about it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It sounds like an important regression, > but if we don't know what it is then we can't fix it. Thanks. Ok, what exactly do you want to know? The tar version I'm using is: $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.16 [...] The tar version on the embedded device is included in BusyBox: BusyBox v1.2.1 (2006.08.06-16:28+0000) multi-call binary I have put some files on my webspace: <http://www.sebastian-kaps.de/misc/> tar11325.tar: tar archive created with GNU tar 1.13.25, taken from a Knoppix 3.4 Linux Live CD (see http://www.knopper.net). Since this version doesn't understand the --format parameter, I used "tar cf tar11325.tar var/" to create the archive. This archive is readable by the tar implementation on the embedded device. tar116_gnu.tar tar archive created with GNU tar 1.16 on AMD64 Linux with --format=gnu. That tar binary is taken from: ,---- | Package: tar | Essential: yes | State: installed | Automatically installed: no | Version: 1.16-2 | Priority: required | Section: base | Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Uncompressed Size: 2060k | PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1) | Suggests: bzip2 | Conflicts: cpio (<= 2.4.2-38) | Replaces: cpio | Description: GNU tar | Tar is a program for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. The function it performs is conceptually similar to cpio, | and to things like PKZIP in the DOS world. It is heavily used by the Debian package management system, and is useful for performing system | backups and exchanging sets of files with others. `---- tar116_oldgnu.tar tar archive created with the same GNU tar 1.16 on AMD64 Linux with --format=oldgnu. tarppc116ppc_gnu.tar tarppc116_oldgnu.tar I've also tested tar 1.16 on an old Apple iBook running Xubuntu 7.04 PPC. There is also no difference between the gnu- and oldgnu-archives created, but both archives differ from the three archives above. These files are also readable by the BusyBox binary. So I guess that means a bug in the AMD64 version of tar... -- Ciao, Sebastian
