[Bug-tar] Re: tar 1.15 released

[Ralf S. Engelschall]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> Ralf S. Engelschall <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Are you aware that although GNU tar 1.14 was able to unpack
> > ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v102/bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz successfully,
> > GNU tar 1.15 now complains with errors and even does not unpack one of
> > the files (blocksort.c) at all?
>
> I have tried to unpack this archive using 1.15 and succeeded.
> Please, send me exact diagnostic messages that tar produced.

Here it comes:

1. The file I have the problem with:

| $ openssl md5 bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz
| MD5(bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz)= ee76864958d568677f03db8afad92beb

2. The problem under ix86-debian3.1:

| $ uname -a
| Linux lnx1.dev.de.cw.net 2.6.9 #1 SMP Thu Nov 18 13:18:03 CET 2004 i686 
GNU/Linux
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ ./tar.linux --version
| tar (GNU tar) 1.15
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ gunzip <bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz | ./tar.linux tf - >/dev/null
| ./tar.linux: This does not look like a tar archive
| ./tar.linux: Skipping to next header
| ./tar.linux: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
| ./tar.linux: Read 9728 bytes from -
| ./tar.linux: Error exit delayed from previous errors
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ gunzip <bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz | ./tar.linux xf - >/dev/null
| ./tar.linux: This does not look like a tar archive
| ./tar.linux: Skipping to next header
| ./tar.linux: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
| ./tar.linux: Read 9728 bytes from -
| ./tar.linux: Error exit delayed from previous errors
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ test -f bz
| bzip2-1.0.2/        bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ test -f bzip2-1.0.2/blocksort.c || echo missing
| missing

3. The problem under ix86-freebsd5.3:

| $ uname -a
| FreeBSD bsd1.dev.de.cw.net 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Fri Nov  5 
19:15:07 CET 2004
|  address@hidden:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BSD1  i386
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ ./tar.freebsd --version
| tar (GNU tar) 1.15
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ gunzip <bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz | ./tar.freebsd tf - >/dev/null
| ./tar.freebsd: This does not look like a tar archive
| ./tar.freebsd: Skipping to next header
| ./tar.freebsd: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
| ./tar.freebsd: Read 9728 bytes from -
| ./tar.freebsd: Error exit delayed from previous errors
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ gunzip <bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz | ./tar.freebsd xf - >/dev/null
| ./tar.freebsd: This does not look like a tar archive
| ./tar.freebsd: Skipping to next header
| ./tar.freebsd: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
| ./tar.freebsd: Read 9728 bytes from -
| ./tar.freebsd: Error exit delayed from previous errors
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ test -f bzip2-1.0.2/blocksort.c || echo missing
| missing

4. The problem under ix86-solaris9:

| $ uname -a
| SunOS sol1.dev.de.cw.net 5.9 Generic_117172-12 i86pc i386 i86pc
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ ./tar.solaris --version
| tar (GNU tar) 1.15
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ gunzip <bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz | ./tar.solaris tf - >/dev/null
| ./tar.solaris: This does not look like a tar archive
| ./tar.solaris: Skipping to next header
| ./tar.solaris: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
| ./tar.solaris: Read 9728 bytes from -
| ./tar.solaris: Error exit delayed from previous errors
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ gunzip <bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz | ./tar.solaris xf - >/dev/null
| ./tar.solaris: This does not look like a tar archive
| ./tar.solaris: Skipping to next header
| ./tar.solaris: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
| ./tar.solaris: Read 9728 bytes from -
| ./tar.solaris: Error exit delayed from previous errors
| address@hidden:/u/rse/tar
| $ test -f bzip2-1.0.2/blocksort.c || echo missing
| missing

As you can see, it is always the same problem, even under different
operating systems.
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       address@hidden
                                       www.engelschall.com