> 
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:37:10PM -0500, Dallas L. Engelken wrote:
> > Renaming the file will not help.  You need to unpack it, rename the 
> > dir, and then recreate the tarball.
> 
> Hrm.  Shouldn't have to do that.
> 
> > # tar zxfv Mail-SpamAssassin-3.000000-pre1.tar.gz
> > # mv Mail-SpamAssassin-3.000000-pre1 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.000000
> 
> $ tar jxf 
> /beaver/pub/spamassassin/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.000000-pre1.tar.bz2
> $ ls
> Mail-SpamAssassin-3.000000
> 
> The gz and bz2 tars should be the same (IIRC, the gz is 
> generated then goes through "gunzip|bzip2" to generate the 
> bz2 file...)
> 

My mistake, I thought Mail-SpamAssassin-3.000000-pre1.tar.gz unpacked to
Mail-SpamAssassin-3.000000-pre1. 
D

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