Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 22:01 +0100, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > >>Recently, someone on dclpy posted about an error he got >>when he tried to unpack the Python distribution tarball >>with Sparc Solaris 9's tar: >> >>tar: directory checksum error >> >>With GNU tar, it worked correctly. >> >>Is this a known issue, or is it irrelevant? > > > Dunno, but I'm always having problems w/ Solaris tar, so I just use GNU > tar on Solaris. ;) > Yes. Back in the 1980's Sun's consulting group made good money selling an "extended" version of tar (that coped with longer paths than the standard version) to customers who could afford it. Guess they never fed the changes back into the trunk ...
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