On Friday 13 March 2009 03:40:00 pm Emery, Jacques wrote: > I was so lost in my own problems that I completely forget to mention the > problem with 'tar'. > > I get a "tar: short read" while trying to untar the file with > tar -xzvf rec_var.tgz > > But I can see from your comment (you use xvf to untar it...), that the error > seems to come from our production process. > On the embeded system, we expect a tared and zipped file. > But obviously it seems that the file is only tared at production time.
No, your .tgz was indeed gzipped, 100% sure. > As we don't work with autodected but use -xzvf as options, it fails ... 1.10.4 with your .config and your attached rec_var.tgz: # /root/srcdevel/bbox/fix/busybox-1.10.4/busybox tar xzvf rec_var.tgz ./ ./run/ ./run/hosts ./log/ ./ntp/ ./data/ ./lib/ ./lib/urandom/ ./dhcpc/ ./config/ ./config/hwversion.conf -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
