Problems with tar-1.13

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:56:25AM -0500, kurt.wall at timesys.com wrote:
>Typing furiously on March 05, Bill Campbell managed to emit:
>> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:34:59PM -0500, kurt.wall at timesys.com wrote:
>> >
>> >It works here on my tar:
>> >
>> >$ tar --version
>> >tar-1.13.19
>> 
>> What distribution?  Can you point to SRPMS so I can compare with
>> the Caldera versions?  I have a RedHat 7.1 system here reporting
>> that size, but the Source CD doesn't have SRPMS for tar-1.13.19-4.
>
>Red Hat 7.2.

That's what I thought.  I couldn't find the tar SRPM on my Red
Hat 7.1 CD set so downloaded it from Red Hat's ftp site.  I built
that on Caldera OpenLinux 3.1, and that solved the problem.

>> It isn't the tape drive.  I've looked at the source enough to see
>> that this is in the basic getopts processing, long before it even
>> looks at the tape.  It fails without looking at the ``-b'' option
>> so specify block size.
>
>Ah. Well, I haven't looked at the source code. No time.

I took a quick look at comparing diffs between 1.12 and 1.13, but
there was far too much for me to dig into, particularly after
getting the Red Hat package, rebuilding it.  This took a bit of
tweaking for Caldera, but not a lot.  I've since rebuilt the
modified SRPMS on OpenLinux 1.3, 2.3, eServer 2.3, eDesktop 2.4,
and Workstation 3.1.

Bill
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