svn commit: trunk/busybox: scripts

Glenn L. McGrath bug1 at ihug.co.nz
Wed May 17 20:48:03 UTC 2006


On Wed, 17 May 2006 16:15:12 +0200
Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Checked out the trunk and busybox tar gives me an error message:
> 
> tar: pax is not tar
> 
> However, today have been busy so I havent been able to track it down.
> It looks like the linux tar archive is a pax archive
> (tar.formated.typeflag is obviously set to 'g'). I guess gnu tar handles
> pax format as well, while busybox tar does not. (looks like bsd tar
> handles it too)
> 
> Could be something else you are seeing. Here it does not even go
> halfway.

I wonder if the Linux maintainers are doing this deliberately or
whether its being triggered their back by GNU tar.

Ill look into it, see what i can work out.

Perhaps the big long directory structures are tirggering something...


Glenn



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