Bug 51831

Summary:	tar-1.13.92 is broken
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ryan McGuigan <ryan>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) <mr_bones_>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.