Apple switched to BSDtar from GNUtar with Leopard - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Don Fox
Subject Apple switched to BSDtar from GNUtar with Leopard
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Msg-id 2E6C7EE0-7746-42EB-B3C0-30CAAA83D467@mac.com
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Responses Re: Apple switched to BSDtar from GNUtar with Leopard  (Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@gmail.com>)
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A little research shows that Apple modified tGNUtar o be resource fork aware and, I guess, did the same with BSDtar! Maybe this points to the problem. Certainly there is nothing wrong with the tar files on the site!


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gnutar -zvxf postgresql-8.4.1.tar.gz
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
gnutar: Child returned status 1
gnutar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

bsdtar -zvxf postgresql-8.4.1.tar.gz
bsdtar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

I'm not sure what to do if I need a fresh copy of the src. ?  Fortunatly I did get an tar file from SourceForge, about a week ago,  that seems to behave normally.

Don





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