On Aug 15 05:09, Brian Dessent wrote: > 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.
Regardless of setup using its own builtin tar, the octave packages on sourceware can be untar'ed using tar 1.13.25 quite nicely. Eric, did you try another mirror? Mayby it's just a broken mirror. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:[email protected] Red Hat, Inc.
