Christopher Yeoh wrote: > On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:00:55 +0100 > Tom Willans <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am trying to generate a oar file based upon the folder from a >> decompressed file. I am using the command >> >> tar cvzf myoarfile.tar.gz * from with the folder itself ( this is now >> readable). What am I doing wrong? > > Try instead: > > tar cvfz myoarfile.tar.gz */* > > when you're in the directory. > > This under most circumstances avoids including directory entries into the > archive. At one stage the dearchiver was made to be a bit more tolerant > of the input like that but the code appears to have regressed a bit.
Is this definitely the case right now? From which I last effectively tested this (which wasn't that long ago), there were no problem with directory entries in the tar. If this is no longer the case then a bug report in Mantis with the offending oar file attached would be much appreciated. > > Occasionally you'll have oar files with deeper directory hierarchies and > you'll need > to firstly produce a file list and get send that to tar directly to avoid > all the directories being included in the archive. > > Regards, > > Chris. -- justincc Justin Clark-Casey http://justincc.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
