They're tarred (and contain a tar.gz and a .gz): sisyphus:~/haml kev$ tar -xvf haml-2.0.7.gem data.tar.gz tar: data.tar.gz: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 16:00:00 metadata.gz tar: metadata.gz: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 16:00:00 sisyphus:~/haml kev$ ls data.tar.gz haml-2.0.7.gem metadata.gz
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Stephen Bannasch <stephen.banna...@deanbrook.org> wrote: > I thought gems were tarred and gzipped but I just built the haml gem tried > to unpack it manually like this: > > tar tzf pkg/haml-2.1.0.gem > > tar responds with: 'not in gzip format' > > _______________________________________________ > Rubygems-developers mailing list > Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers > -- Kevin Clark http://glu.ttono.us _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
