[Fink-devel] strange .tgz file doesn't pass gnutar heuristics, but can be extracted with gunzip and tar
Just thought I'd throw this out there for the archives, or in case anyone else has seen something similar. I'm attempting to package http://search.cpan.org/~nwiger/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/ and I get the following at the unpack stage: env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw.lion/bin/tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions -xvf /Users/clepple/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tgz /sw.lion/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /sw.lion/bin/tar: Skipping to next header /sw.lion/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ### execution of env failed, exit code 2 But if I manually gunzip the archive, and feed that to tar: $ /sw/bin/gnutar tvf ~/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tar /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' drwxr-xr-x nateware/wheel0 2013-11-29 22:06 CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/ /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' -rw-r--r-- nateware/wheel 17748 2013-11-29 22:06 CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/Changes (etc.) $ ls -l /sw/bin/tar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 4 Nov 17 11:56 /sw/bin/tar@ - gtar $ ls -l /sw/bin/gnutar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 4 Nov 17 11:56 /sw/bin/gnutar@ - gtar It looks like the GNU tar heuristics get confused by the extended headers when presented with the .tgz. In the short term, I think I'll just try the Debian .orig.tar.gz, but has anyone run across this before? (I'm assuming this is from Schily's S tar, or something similar.) $ fink --version Package manager version: 0.36.3.1 Distribution version: selfupdate-cvs Thu Jan 16 08:54:42 2014, 10.7, x86_64 Trees: local/main stable/main -- Charles Lepple clepple@gmail -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] strange .tgz file doesn't pass gnutar heuristics, but can be extracted with gunzip and tar
Hi, not sure it'll help but I've got the same behavior with the gnutar shipped with lion. gnutar version : tar (GNU tar) 1.17 so does the fink version tar --version: tar (GNU tar) 1.26 but the bsdtar works fine on that file bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3 Djamé Le 16 janv. 2014 à 15:12, Charles Lepple a écrit : Just thought I'd throw this out there for the archives, or in case anyone else has seen something similar. I'm attempting to package http://search.cpan.org/~nwiger/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/ and I get the following at the unpack stage: env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw.lion/bin/tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions -xvf /Users/clepple/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tgz /sw.lion/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /sw.lion/bin/tar: Skipping to next header /sw.lion/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ### execution of env failed, exit code 2 But if I manually gunzip the archive, and feed that to tar: $ /sw/bin/gnutar tvf ~/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tar /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' drwxr-xr-x nateware/wheel0 2013-11-29 22:06 CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/ /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' -rw-r--r-- nateware/wheel 17748 2013-11-29 22:06 CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/Changes (etc.) $ ls -l /sw/bin/tar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 4 Nov 17 11:56 /sw/bin/tar@ - gtar $ ls -l /sw/bin/gnutar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 4 Nov 17 11:56 /sw/bin/gnutar@ - gtar It looks like the GNU tar heuristics get confused by the extended headers when presented with the .tgz. In the short term, I think I'll just try the Debian .orig.tar.gz, but has anyone run across this before? (I'm assuming this is from Schily's S tar, or something similar.) $ fink --version Package manager version: 0.36.3.1 Distribution version: selfupdate-cvs Thu Jan 16 08:54:42 2014, 10.7, x86_64 Trees: local/main stable/main -- Charles Lepple clepple@gmail -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] strange .tgz file doesn't pass gnutar heuristics, but can be extracted with gunzip and tar
shouldn't fink be sending ta -xzvf ?? it's missing the -z for gzip that being said I don't think it'll fix it but it's still odd. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2014-01-16, at 7:12 AM, Charles Lepple clep...@gmail.com wrote: env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw.lion/bin/tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions -xvf /Users/clepple/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tgz /sw.lion/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /sw.lion/bin/tar: Skipping to next header /sw.lion/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ### execution of env failed, exit code 2 -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] strange .tgz file doesn't pass gnutar heuristics, but can be extracted with gunzip and tar
On 1/16/14 6:35 AM, TheSin wrote: shouldn't fink be sending ta -xzvf ?? it's missing the -z for gzip that being said I don't think it'll fix it but it's still odd. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2014-01-16, at 7:12 AM, Charles Lepple clep...@gmail.com wrote: env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw.lion/bin/tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions -xvf /Users/clepple/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tgz /sw.lion/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /sw.lion/bin/tar: Skipping to next header /sw.lion/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ### execution of env failed, exit code 2 No, we deliberately dropped adding -z (or -j, or whatever), because tars at least as new as the gnu tar from 10.5 are supposed to be able to figure out what compression utility is needed, so we can get away with using tar -xvf on uncompressed tarballs, gzipped tarballs, bzipped tarballs, and xzipped tarballs without having to go through conditionals to figure out what decompressor is needed. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] strange .tgz file doesn't pass gnutar heuristics, but can be extracted with gunzip and tar
On 1/16/14 6:47 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 1/16/14 6:35 AM, TheSin wrote: shouldn't fink be sending ta -xzvf ?? it's missing the -z for gzip that being said I don't think it'll fix it but it's still odd. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2014-01-16, at 7:12 AM, Charles Lepple clep...@gmail.com wrote: env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw.lion/bin/tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions -xvf /Users/clepple/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tgz /sw.lion/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /sw.lion/bin/tar: Skipping to next header /sw.lion/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ### execution of env failed, exit code 2 No, we deliberately dropped adding -z (or -j, or whatever), because tars at least as new as the gnu tar from 10.5 are supposed to be able to figure out what compression utility is needed, so we can get away with using tar -xvf on uncompressed tarballs, gzipped tarballs, bzipped tarballs, and xzipped tarballs without having to go through conditionals to figure out what decompressor is needed. Though in point of fact we didn't actually use flags for tar. We figured out the compression utility via extension, used that, and piped the result into tar. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] strange .tgz file doesn't pass gnutar heuristics, but can be extracted with gunzip and tar
On 1/16/14 6:12 AM, Charles Lepple wrote: Just thought I'd throw this out there for the archives, or in case anyone else has seen something similar. I'm attempting to package http://search.cpan.org/~nwiger/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/ and I get the following at the unpack stage: env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw.lion/bin/tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions -xvf /Users/clepple/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tgz /sw.lion/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /sw.lion/bin/tar: Skipping to next header /sw.lion/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ### execution of env failed, exit code 2 But if I manually gunzip the archive, and feed that to tar: $ /sw/bin/gnutar tvf ~/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tar /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' drwxr-xr-x nateware/wheel0 2013-11-29 22:06 CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/ /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' -rw-r--r-- nateware/wheel 17748 2013-11-29 22:06 CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/Changes (etc.) $ ls -l /sw/bin/tar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 4 Nov 17 11:56 /sw/bin/tar@ - gtar $ ls -l /sw/bin/gnutar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 4 Nov 17 11:56 /sw/bin/gnutar@ - gtar It looks like the GNU tar heuristics get confused by the extended headers when presented with the .tgz. In the short term, I think I'll just try the Debian .orig.tar.gz, but has anyone run across this before? (I'm assuming this is from Schily's S tar, or something similar.) $ fink --version Package manager version: 0.36.3.1 Distribution version: selfupdate-cvs Thu Jan 16 08:54:42 2014, 10.7, x86_64 Trees: local/main stable/main TarFilesRename uses the older method of using the uncompressor first and then pipes the result out, although to pax rather than tar. A combination of TarFilesRename and SourceRename might well do the trick here. Another option would be to recompress it and have the new tarball uploaded to Fink's repository on Sourceforge. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] strange .tgz file doesn't pass gnutar heuristics, but can be extracted with gunzip and tar
oh nice didn't know that, guess I just feel old since I still use -z ;) --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2014-01-16, at 7:47 AM, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/16/14 6:35 AM, TheSin wrote: shouldn't fink be sending ta -xzvf ?? it's missing the -z for gzip that being said I don't think it'll fix it but it's still odd. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2014-01-16, at 7:12 AM, Charles Lepple clep...@gmail.com wrote: env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw.lion/bin/tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions -xvf /Users/clepple/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tgz /sw.lion/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /sw.lion/bin/tar: Skipping to next header /sw.lion/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ### execution of env failed, exit code 2 No, we deliberately dropped adding -z (or -j, or whatever), because tars at least as new as the gnu tar from 10.5 are supposed to be able to figure out what compression utility is needed, so we can get away with using tar -xvf on uncompressed tarballs, gzipped tarballs, bzipped tarballs, and xzipped tarballs without having to go through conditionals to figure out what decompressor is needed. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] strange .tgz file doesn't pass gnutar heuristics, but can be extracted with gunzip and tar
the recent version of tar also accept the -a switch (for auto) Le 16 janv. 2014 à 16:14, TheSin a écrit : oh nice didn't know that, guess I just feel old since I still use -z ;) --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2014-01-16, at 7:47 AM, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/16/14 6:35 AM, TheSin wrote: shouldn't fink be sending ta -xzvf ?? it's missing the -z for gzip that being said I don't think it'll fix it but it's still odd. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2014-01-16, at 7:12 AM, Charles Lepple clep...@gmail.com wrote: env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw.lion/bin/tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions -xvf /Users/clepple/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tgz /sw.lion/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /sw.lion/bin/tar: Skipping to next header /sw.lion/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ### execution of env failed, exit code 2 No, we deliberately dropped adding -z (or -j, or whatever), because tars at least as new as the gnu tar from 10.5 are supposed to be able to figure out what compression utility is needed, so we can get away with using tar -xvf on uncompressed tarballs, gzipped tarballs, bzipped tarballs, and xzipped tarballs without having to go through conditionals to figure out what decompressor is needed. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] strange .tgz file doesn't pass gnutar heuristics, but can be extracted with gunzip and tar
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:04:56 -0800, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/16/14 6:12 AM, Charles Lepple wrote: Just thought I'd throw this out there for the archives, or in case anyone else has seen something similar. I'm attempting to package http://search.cpan.org/~nwiger/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/ and I get the following at the unpack stage: env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw.lion/bin/tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions -xvf /Users/clepple/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tgz /sw.lion/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /sw.lion/bin/tar: Skipping to next header /sw.lion/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ### execution of env failed, exit code 2 But if I manually gunzip the archive, and feed that to tar: $ /sw/bin/gnutar tvf ~/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tar /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' drwxr-xr-x nateware/wheel0 2013-11-29 22:06 CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/ /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' -rw-r--r-- nateware/wheel 17748 2013-11-29 22:06 CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/Changes (etc.) $ ls -l /sw/bin/tar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 4 Nov 17 11:56 /sw/bin/tar@ - gtar $ ls -l /sw/bin/gnutar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 4 Nov 17 11:56 /sw/bin/gnutar@ - gtar It looks like the GNU tar heuristics get confused by the extended headers when presented with the .tgz. In the short term, I think I'll just try the Debian .orig.tar.gz, but has anyone run across this before? (I'm assuming this is from Schily's S tar, or something similar.) $ fink --version Package manager version: 0.36.3.1 Distribution version: selfupdate-cvs Thu Jan 16 08:54:42 2014, 10.7, x86_64 Trees: local/main stable/main TarFilesRename uses the older method of using the uncompressor first and then pipes the result out, although to pax rather than tar. A combination of TarFilesRename and SourceRename might well do the trick here. Another option would be to recompress it and have the new tarball uploaded to Fink's repository on Sourceforge. .tgz is not non-standard (per spec) and not uncommon in the world, I don't think we should rehost it is a good general solution. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] strange .tgz file doesn't pass gnutar heuristics, but can be extracted with gunzip and tar
It's only this particular file (for now). I believe we currently have packages in the distro with .tgz sources. Sent from my iPod On Jan 16, 2014, at 9:36, Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:04:56 -0800, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/16/14 6:12 AM, Charles Lepple wrote: Just thought I'd throw this out there for the archives, or in case anyone else has seen something similar. I'm attempting to package http://search.cpan.org/~nwiger/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/ and I get the following at the unpack stage: env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw.lion/bin/tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions -xvf /Users/clepple/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tgz /sw.lion/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /sw.lion/bin/tar: Skipping to next header /sw.lion/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ### execution of env failed, exit code 2 But if I manually gunzip the archive, and feed that to tar: $ /sw/bin/gnutar tvf ~/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tar /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' drwxr-xr-x nateware/wheel0 2013-11-29 22:06 CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/ /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' /sw/bin/gnutar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' -rw-r--r-- nateware/wheel 17748 2013-11-29 22:06 CGI-FormBuilder-3.09/Changes (etc.) $ ls -l /sw/bin/tar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 4 Nov 17 11:56 /sw/bin/tar@ - gtar $ ls -l /sw/bin/gnutar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 4 Nov 17 11:56 /sw/bin/gnutar@ - gtar It looks like the GNU tar heuristics get confused by the extended headers when presented with the .tgz. In the short term, I think I'll just try the Debian .orig.tar.gz, but has anyone run across this before? (I'm assuming this is from Schily's S tar, or something similar.) $ fink --version Package manager version: 0.36.3.1 Distribution version: selfupdate-cvs Thu Jan 16 08:54:42 2014, 10.7, x86_64 Trees: local/main stable/main TarFilesRename uses the older method of using the uncompressor first and then pipes the result out, although to pax rather than tar. A combination of TarFilesRename and SourceRename might well do the trick here. Another option would be to recompress it and have the new tarball uploaded to Fink's repository on Sourceforge. .tgz is not non-standard (per spec) and not uncommon in the world, I don't think we should rehost it is a good general solution. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] strange .tgz file doesn't pass gnutar heuristics, but can be extracted with gunzip and tar
On Jan 16, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:04:56 -0800, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: TarFilesRename uses the older method of using the uncompressor first and then pipes the result out, although to pax rather than tar. A combination of TarFilesRename and SourceRename might well do the trick here. The TarFilesRename/SourceRename sounds promising, although there will be a big fat comment explaining what the heck is going on there. Another option would be to recompress it and have the new tarball uploaded to Fink's repository on Sourceforge. .tgz is not non-standard (per spec) and not uncommon in the world, I don't think we should rehost it is a good general solution. The filename extension isn't the issue - I neglected to mention that I tried renaming it to tar.gz before I tried running gzip separately. It's the tar header keyword extensions inside the gzip payload that are tripping up the integrated tar+gz auto-detector in GNU tar. -- Charles Lepple clepple@gmail -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
