I have somehow managed to made a source tar ball which "R CMD check" accepts but "R CMD INSTALL" rejects with:
------------------ Warning in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : checksum error for entry 'pax_global_header' Error in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : unsupported entry type ‘g’ ------------------ This happens with both R 2.12.2 (x86 linux) and R svn (x86_64 linux). Since R CMD check does install as part of the check process, there is probably a bug somewhere. The tar ball is uploaded at: http://htl10.users.sourceforge.net/tmp/Matrix_0.999375-48.tar.gz and tar -xzpvf works. It is possible to do R CMD INSTALL from the untar'ed data, so I am a bit lost at where the problem is. The tar ball was generated with git archive ... | gzip > package.tar.gz similar to the example at the bottom of git-archive. It is the result of git cherry-pick trunk@2658 + Matrix-for-R-2.13@2657 . ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
