I had trouble with the tar on my Solaris box but the zip worked fine. The tar worked fine on my Windows workstation though.
Ben -----Original Message----- From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 8:06 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: tar 1.13.93 and jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19.tar.gz errors. Hi, >Attempting to untar jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19.tar.gz fails. I confirmed >that the file is uncorrupted, and it untars correctly with other >versions of tar. This is of course a bug with version 1.13.93 of tar, >but I thought I'd point it out to this list, in case anyone else runs >into it. And finding some way to package the binary distribution so >that the bug didn't matter would also be nice. This is why we say to use GNU tar to unpack the tomcat tarballs in bold letters on the download page ;) The reason some other/older tar executables don't handle it well is because of the very long paths (>7 directories) in the tarball. Flattening out our tarball is not likely to happen ;) Consider using the zip distro instead if you can't get/use GNU tar (e.g. due to a nitpicky sysadmin ;)). Yoav Shapira This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
