>> Thanks for trying out ELPA.
>> May I ask you what version of Emacs you use and what OS you run on? > Sorry I shuld have mentioned that. It's GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 > (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-10-18 on windows 7 Home Premium >> >> There is a comment in the package manager that there is a dependency on >> GNU tar. May be the tar binary that you are running is not "GNU tar >> compatible" > I use the one from gnuwin32. It says tar (GNU tar) 1.22. On my own machine I have issues while using gnuwin32 tar for extraction. I encounter *no* errors while using Cygwin tar (See the enclosed logs down below) While running the following command: - tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el the error reporter in my setup is: ,---- [error with gnuwin32 tar on my machine] | "tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\000'\347\033" where octal uid_t | value expected" `---- while the error encountered in your setup is: ,---- [error with gnuwin32 as reported by you] | "tar: Archive value 297315 is out of gid_t range 0..65535" `---- The thing that seems common in both these errors is that it relates to the username and groupnames (uid_t and gid_t). This has something to do with how tar archives are created on build machine. I don't have much experience with packaging. I am dumping my analysis hoping that someone would offer a quick fix for the problem. For the sake of reference, here is how the elpa archives are built. ,---- | pkg: | [...] | rm -rf org-$(PKG_TAG) org-$(PKG_TAG).tar | $(MKDIR) org-$(PKG_TAG) | cp -r $(PKG_FILES) org-$(PKG_TAG) | echo "(define-package \"org\" \"$(PKG_TAG)\" \"$(PKG_DOC)\" $(PKG_REQ))" > org-$(PKG_TAG)/org-pkg.el | tar cf org-$(PKG_TAG).tar org-$(PKG_TAG) --remove-files `---- ,---- [Using GnuWin32 tar is problematic] | C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin>tar --version | tar (GNU tar) 1.13 | | Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO | warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | | Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. | | C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin>tar -xOf org-20101101.tar | org-20101101/org-pkg.el | | tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\000'\347\033" where octal uid_t | value expected (define-package "org" "20101101" "Outline-based notes | management and organizer" nil) tar: Error exit delayed from previous | errors `---- ,---- [Using Cygwin tar is smooth] | | bash-3.2$ tar --version | tar (GNU tar) 1.23 | Packaged by Cygwin (1.23-1) | Copyright (C) 2010 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. | | bash-3.2$ tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el | | (define-package "org" "20101101" "Outline-based notes management and | organizer" nil) | `---- > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't read whole string") > signal(error ("Can't read whole string")) > error("Can't read whole string") > package-read-from-string("tar: Archive value 297315 is out of gid_t range > 0..65535\n(define-package \"org\" \"20101101\" \"Outline-based notes > management and organizer\" nil)\ntar: Exiting with failure status due to > previous errors\n") > (progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string > (shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar > org-20101101/org-pkg.el")))) > eval((progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string > (shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar > org-20101101/org-pkg.el"))))) > eval-last-sexp-1(nil) > eval-last-sexp(nil) Jambunthan K. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode