bb tar issues

[Carlo Landmeter]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 May 2010 10:39, Carlo Landmeter wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I have created 2 archives of the same src on my dreamhost.com account.
>> When i try to tar zxvf with (BusyBox v1.16.0) on alpinelinux i get this msg:
>>
>> tar: corrupted octal value in tar header
>>
>> When i install GNU tar it works as expected.
>>
>> Following files are created with tar (GNU tar) 1.16:
>>
>> http://alpine.nethq.org/clandmeter/src/freepbx3.tgz
>> http://alpine.nethq.org/clandmeter/src/freepbx30.tgz
>
> tar header format:
>
>        char mode[8];             /* 100-107 */
>        char uid[8];              /* 108-115 */
>        char gid[8];              /* 116-123 */
>        char size[12];            /* 124-135 */
>        char mtime[12];           /* 136-147 */
>        char chksum[8];           /* 148-155 */
>
> In freepbx3.tgz after unpacking:
>
> 00000000  66 72 65 65 70 62 78 2d  76 33 2f 00 00 00 00 00  |freepbx-v3/.....|
> 00000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> 00000020  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> 00000030  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> 00000040  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> 00000050  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> 00000060  00 00 00 00 30 30 30 30  37 37 35 00 80 00 00 00  |....0000775.....|
> 00000070  00 2d 1f c9 31 36 36 31  36 30 37 00 30 30 30 30  |.-..1661607.0000|
> 00000080  30 30 30 30 30 30 30 00  31 31 33 37 30 33 32 30  |0000000.11370320|
> 00000090  36 33 37 00 30 31 33 32  34 32 00 20 35 00 00 00  |637.013242. 5...|
> ...
>
> uid field is: 80 00 00 00 00 2d 1f c9
>
> Wow. It means uid is > 2097151 (07777777 octal).
> DO you really have such huge uid when you pack the file?

I packed this from the shell I have from www.dreamhost.com. I don't
know their infrastructure but i guess its big as this is a low cost
hosting provider.

> --
> vda
>

carlo