Hi Matthias,

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:08:24PM +0000, Matthias Klein wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we are using the root.tgz file for our software updates.
> But I can't decompress the root.tgz with the tar (busybox) from PTXdist
> 2014.02 on an PTXdist 2014.01.0 target ...
> 
> I always get:
> 
> tar -xvzf root.tgz -C dest/
> invalid tar magic
> Does anyone have an idea ?
> (I can decompress the archive on the host, but not on the target)
> 
> 

First, I would check the checksum if tgz is the same like on your host
system.

Second, I googled a little bit... so it seems there are some options to
have backwards compability (depends on your host tar version if you need
them or not) check out [1].

Maybe BUSYBOX_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY is something which you need.

- Alex

[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-September/073298.html

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