Summary: | Unable to decompress all bz2 installed by portage | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | jer |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Agostino Sarubbo
2014-10-20 08:06:55 UTC
(In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #0) > While I'm trying to decompress some bz2 installed from portage: > > ago@willoughby ~ $ file /usr/share/doc/ntp-4.2.6_p5-r10/README.bz2 > /usr/share/doc/ntp-4.2.6_p5-r10/README.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block > size = 900k > > ago@willoughby ~ $ tar xjf /usr/share/doc/ntp-4.2.6_p5-r10/README.bz2 -C > /tmp/ > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors You should use bzcat instead, because it's not a tar file. tar doesn't unpack things that are not tar archives. |