setup.exe: Invalid or unsupported tar format

Marco Atzeri marco_atzeri@yahoo.it
Tue May 6 09:57:00 GMT 2008


--- Brian Dessent  ha scritto:

 
> > The setup.exe source (install.cc,
> Installer::installOne) looks like it
> > expects an error peeking from try_decompress in
> this situation, but
> > running in the debugger shows
> try_decompress->peek() successfully
> > reading '0'. Note that if you bunzip2 the empty
> package, you get a 10K
> > tarball which is all zeroes, so success isn't
> completely unexpected...
> 

$ tar --show-defaults
--format=gnu -f- -b20 --quoting-style=escape
--rmt-command=/usr/sbin/rmt.exe
--rsh-command=/usr/bin/rsh

$ ls -lrt

   10240 May  6 11:30 prova1.tar

my guess 20*512= 10240 bytes

Regards
Marco
 


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