On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig.7os6v...@franz.ak.mind.de> wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:38:31 -0800, Joshua ben Jore <twi...@gmail.com> >>>>>> said: > > > Hi, > > I uploaded B-Utils-0.10.tar.gz on December 20th. I never got an email > > either accepting or rejecting the dist for indexing. > > I requested a reindex at Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:17:04 +0100 > > I requested anothe reindex at Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:19:49 +0100 > > > I can't find any mention of the dist in the log tail. What's going > > on? > > Look, what my tar program spits out. I've never seen this before: > > % tar tzf /home/ftp/pub/PAUSE/authors/id/J/JJ/JJORE/B-Utils-0.10.tar.gz > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' > B-Utils-0.10/ > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' > B-Utils-0.10/build/ > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `LIBARCHIVE.creationtime' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' > B-Utils-0.10/BUtils.h > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `LIBARCHIVE.creationtime' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' > B-Utils-0.10/BUtils_op.h > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' > [...] > > and in the end it fails to untar your file: > > [...] > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > zsh: exit 2 tar tzf > /home/ftp/pub/PAUSE/authors/id/J/JJ/JJORE/B-Utils-0.10.tar.gz > > I'm sorry, of course should PAUSE send a diagnostic message.==>TODO > > So in the meantime I'v eupgraded tar on PAUSE from from 1.16-2 to 1.20-1 > and with the new tar the indexer was able to do the indexing job (with > lots of noise still) > > Thanks for letting me know,
The BSD tar people have complained that POSIX tar has an extension mechanism and this is just using that. GNU tar is apparently supposed to ignore the unknown headers. I don't yet know how to get bsdtar on my Mac OS X 10.6.2 to not generate these headers. Josh
