Public bug reported: If you download qemu-2.10.0.tar.xv and/or qemu-2.10.1.tar.xv, and follow the directions at https://www.qemu.org/download/, you get a tar error.
To repro: $ wget https://download.qemu.org/qemu-2.10.0.tar.xz $ tar xJf qemu-2.10.0.tar.xz tar: qemu-2.10.0/roms/u-boot/scripts/Kconfig: Cannot open: File exists tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.29 Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. Apologies if I'm being an idiot here. ** Affects: qemu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1810405 Title: source tarball has errors when untarring Status in QEMU: New Bug description: If you download qemu-2.10.0.tar.xv and/or qemu-2.10.1.tar.xv, and follow the directions at https://www.qemu.org/download/, you get a tar error. To repro: $ wget https://download.qemu.org/qemu-2.10.0.tar.xz $ tar xJf qemu-2.10.0.tar.xz tar: qemu-2.10.0/roms/u-boot/scripts/Kconfig: Cannot open: File exists tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.29 Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. Apologies if I'm being an idiot here. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1810405/+subscriptions