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

From Don Fox
Subject Re: Apple switched to BSDtar from GNUtar with Leopard
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Msg-id F585BED9-D305-4D19-871F-3E9DEA79BE17@mac.com
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In response to Re: Apple switched to BSDtar from GNUtar with Leopard  (Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Apple switched to BSDtar from GNUtar with Leopard  (Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@gmail.com>)
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I was able to un-tar readline without any hitch.

tar -xf readline-6.0.tar
c-76-123-226-197:src donfox1$ ls
postgresql-8.4.1.tar.bz2 readline-6.0 readline-6.0.tar



On Oct 31, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Hassan Schroeder wrote:

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Don Fox <donfox1@mac.com> wrote:

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!

You sure? FWIW, I get the same thing on my Linux dev box:

hassan@ceylon:/tmp> tar tvfz postgresql-8.4.1.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
hassan@ceylon:/tmp> uname -a
Linux ceylon 2.6.13-15.15-smp #1 SMP Mon Feb 26 14:11:33 UTC 2007
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
hassan@ceylon:/tmp>

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