svn commit: trunk/busybox: scripts

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 10:15 am, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > Tarring up and extracting the linux-2.6.16 kernel tarball triggers it
> > about halfway through the extract of the resulting tarball.  Easy enough
> > to reproduce, but rather a long path to get to it through the code...
>
> Checked out the trunk and busybox tar gives me an error message:
>
> tar: pax is not tar

The 1.1.3 busybox tarball I put together is doing that too.  

> 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)

I grabbed the linux-2.6.15 tarball from kernel.org and it's complaining on 
that too.  And it's doing so with the busybox 1.1.3 tarball I just put 
together.  I have no idea what's up with that...

> Could be something else you are seeing. Here it does not even go
> halfway.

Oh there's another bug too... :)

> --
> Natanael Copa

Rob
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