Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Lone zero blocks

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:34, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Hi all,
> With tar 1.13.93, I occasionally get this kind of message when accessing 
> archives:
> tar: A lone zero block at 260
> An example would be Tom's patch-93:
> http://arch.quackerhead.com/~lord/archives/address@hidden/tla/tla--devo/tla--devo--1.2/patch-93/tla--devo--1.2--patch-93.patches.tar.gz
> 
> I'm not sure whether it happens in other archives too.
> 
> In spite of this, tla does build successfully.  It seems as though the 
> message is just a warning.  Anyone have any insight?

there was a recent nasty bug in debian tar related to zero's - see the
changelog for moredetails on the problem & fix... may be related.

Rob
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