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Bug 51831 - tar-1.13.92 is broken
Summary: tar-1.13.92 is broken
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Mr. Bones. (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2004-05-23 08:29 UTC by Ryan McGuigan
Modified: 2004-06-02 13:20 UTC (History)
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Description Ryan McGuigan 2004-05-23 08:29:27 UTC
Tar version 1.13.92 has a serious bug that prevents it from extracting some archives, notably NVIDIA driver packages < 1.0-5xxx(eg. the stable NVIDIA kernel ebuild cannot be installed correctly if the stable tar ebuild is installed).

tar-1.13.94 seems to fix the problem.
Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-05-23 11:24:04 UTC
actually, looks like Mr_Bones_ already bumped tar
Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-05-25 12:37:49 UTC
Can you give a url for an archive that breaks with the old version of
tar please?  I'd like to try it out.
Comment 3 Kristian 2004-05-25 15:02:25 UTC
i got a problem with tar-1.13.94

it would extract alot of my archives incorrectly. for example soap-src-2.3.1.tar.gz from http://www.apache.de/dist/ws/soap/version-2.3.1/ just aborted with lone zero at ...
switching back to 1.13.92-r3 helped. with google i found out it seems to be a bug in tar itself.
Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-05-25 15:16:02 UTC
http://www.apache.de/dist/ws/soap/version-2.3.1/soap-bin-2.3.1.tar.gz
lazy url clicky-thingy
Comment 5 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-05-26 10:51:45 UTC
y'all give tar-1.14 a try please.
Comment 6 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-06-02 13:20:06 UTC
Hey, let's have some feedback please.