Eric Blake wrote: > When using setup.exe this morning, I got complaints from tar when > unpacking octave-forge: "error: unknown (or unsupported) file type `K'". > I believe this is coming from tar, meaning you packaged with a newer > version of tar than cygwin's current 1.13.25, using options that the older > tar chokes on. Hopefully, this will go away when I get tar 1.15.1 working > (I'm still tracking down a textmode issue), but in the meantime, you may > want to consider repackaging.
Setup uses its own internal tar routines so the installed version of /bin/tar is irrelevent. Still, it would be good to find out what version of tar created the archive and what option is causing the problem. Brian
