Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Kumba <kumba@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Avoid packaging stages w/ tar-1.13.92
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:07:37
Message-Id: 40215FAE.9030406@gentoo.org
1 Martin Schlemmer wrote:
2
3 > Works fine here:
4 >
5 > --
6 > azarah@nosferatu stage $ sudo tar -jxpf ../stage1-mips4-20040131.tar.bz2
7 > azarah@nosferatu stage $ tar --version
8 > tar (GNU tar) 1.13.92
9 > Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
10 > This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
11 > You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
12 > see the file named COPYING for details.
13 > Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
14 > azarah@nosferatu stage $ epm -q tar
15 > tar-1.13.92-r3
16 > azarah@nosferatu stage $ md5sum ../stage1-mips4-20040131.tar.bz2
17 > c37d214817666cf6d161112dcaf41caf ../stage1-mips4-20040131.tar.bz2
18 > azarah@nosferatu stage $
19 > --
20
21 Yeah, they work fine with GNU Tar, but not with the tar built into
22 busybox-1.00pre5 and pre6. Sparc and mips netboots use busybox, and if
23 I'm not mistaken, the livecds use busybox as well, so this could be a
24 possible problem in those cases.
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27 --Kumba
28
29 --
30 "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world:
31 small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are
32 elsewhere." --Elrond
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