For the sake of record, file attributes of ELPA tar as is distributed now:
,---- | | bash-3.2$ tar tvf org-20101101.tar | head | drwxr-xr-x cdominik/pg1095168 0 2010-11-01 12:30 org-20101101/ | -rw-r--r-- cdominik/pg1095168 17889 2010-11-01 12:30 org-20101101/ob-tangle.el | -rw-r--r-- cdominik/pg1095168 45603 2010-11-01 12:30 org-20101101/org-remember.el | -rw-r--r-- cdominik/pg1095168 8294 2010-11-01 12:30 org-20101101/org-bibtex.el | -rw-r--r-- cdominik/pg1095168 1417 2010-11-01 12:30 org-20101101/ob-matlab.el | `---- Jambunathan K. >>> 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 _______________________________________________ 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