On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:13:58PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Brian Dessent on 5/5/2008 3:11 PM: > |> I have an empty meta-package to pull in other packages copied from one > |> of the _obsolete packages. I understand these are created via 'tar -T > |> /dev/null -cjf foo.tar.bz2' (see > |> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-04/msg00105.html), and diff > |> reports the results identical; the file size is the expected 46 bytes. > > It sounds like we need to replace all the 46-byte files with 14 byte ones? > ~ But the empty file is technically not a valid tar file, since it lacks > the required trailing blocks.
Yes, I'm confused by this. I did replace all of the zero length tar files with the 46 byte versions. That's what I've always done when creating an empty package. cgf
