Hi, Zheng Zhang wrote: > I have some troubles when I following the instruction of > http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Meego_chroot_install_on_N900, > when the command " tar xzf <meego-image> -C $MEEGO_ROOT" is running to > unpack Meego rootfs image there. I get an error about* "invalid tar > magic"*. And the instruction said that "There's some problem between GNU > tar and Busybox tar. Solution is to install GNU tar from Maemo Extras > (package name is tar-gnu)".I have download the "tar-gnu" package and > install it ,but it does not work,it still has the "invalid tar > magic"error.So how do I resolve this problem? Thank you!
tar has a magic number in the header - you can see the magic number for tar here: http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/oldusers/rno/Computing/File_magic.html If you open the tar file in a binary-capable editor, you should see "ustar" at an offset of 257 bytes in the header. If you don't, it's not a tar file. I found this: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09380.html when looking for "busybox tar gnu" - the thread seems to point to the problem as well as the solution for busybox tar. The alternative solution is to actually run GNU tar after installing it - find where it is and run it directly with the path (eg. /usr/local/bin/tar) or whatever). Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: [email protected] Jabber: [email protected] _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
