Hi all, I have just downloaded jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28.tar.gz from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi#5.0.28. I checked the md5 signature, and all was well. (NB. I need to use this version rather than 5.5, since that is what is on the machine I am targeting and I can't change that at present).
I tried untarring the file with the tar that came with SUSE 10.0, which is: % tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 and it failed with: % tar xvfz ~/downloads/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28.tar.gz ... jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/webapps/webdav/tomcat-power.gif jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/webapps/webdav/tomcat.gif tar: A lone zero block at 82109 The same thing happened when untarring the Deployer and Embedded staff (at different places though). Since the README says "NOTE: The tar files in this distribution use GNU tar extensions, and must be untarred with a GNU compatible version of tar.", I decided that perhaps I should get the GNU tar source (maybe SUSE did something odd?), so I grabbed it via ftp from GNU, and built a new tar which I installed locally: % gtar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.15 This failed with the identical error: % gtar xvfz ~/downloads/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28.tar.gz ... jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/webapps/webdav/tomcat-power.gif jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/webapps/webdav/tomcat.gif gtar: A lone zero block at 82109 Using the "i" option to tell tar to ignore zero blocks does not help: % gtar xvfiz ~/downloads/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28.tar.gz ... jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/webapps/webdav/tomcat-power.gif jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/webapps/webdav/tomcat.gif gtar: Skipping to next header jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/webapps/webdav/index.html jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/webapps/webdav/tomcat-power.gif gtar: Unexpected EOF in archive gtar: Unexpected EOF in archive gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now In this case, the file jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/webapps/webdav/tomcat-power.gif is indeed truncated, though, perhaps oddly, it is not if I don't use the "i" option. I guess I could just grab the zip files, but I would like to sort this out. The note in the README about GNU compatible tar does not seem adequate. Regards, David -- Dr. David McG. Squire, Senior Lecturer. On sabbatical in 2006. Caulfield School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia CRICOS Provider No. 00008C http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davids/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
