> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 14:36 -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: >> Package: tar >> Version: 1.14-2 >> Severity: important >> >> ... >> ./htdocs/nationwide/themes/templates/ >> ./htdocs/nationwide/themes/templates/old_files/ >> ./htdocs/nationwide/untitled/ >> tar: ./htdocs/class1/test/RoomSchedSymbols.fla: invalid sparse archive >> member >> tar: Skipping to next header > > Is this still a problem with tar 1.15.1-2, currently in unstable? >
No, upgrading to 1.15.1-2 fixes it. I hope the following makes it easy for you to reproduce $ cat test.sh #!/bin/bash echo "........" > aoeu dd if=/dev/zero of=sparse seek=10 count=1 bs=1M echo "xxxxxxxx" > zaoeu tar -cSf sparse.tar aoeu sparse zaoeu tar -tvf sparse.tar aoeu echo "Error level: $?" tar -cf sparse.tar aoeu sparse zaoeu tar -tvf sparse.tar aoeu echo "Error level: $?" --------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tar-test$ sh test.sh 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1048576 bytes transferred in 0,003606 seconds (290781099 bytes/sec) -rw-r--r-- sunkan/sunkan 9 2005-10-19 11:15:29 aoeu tar: sparse: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Error level: 2 -rw-r--r-- sunkan/sunkan 9 2005-10-19 11:15:29 aoeu Error level: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tar-test$ su Password: sunkan:/tmp/tar-test# aptitude (Reading database ... 85530 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace tar 1.14-2 (using .../archives/tar_1.15.1-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement tar ... Setting up tar (1.15.1-2) ... Press return to continue. sunkan:/tmp/tar-test# exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tar-test$ sh test.sh 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1048576 bytes transferred in 0,003398 seconds (308596321 bytes/sec) -rw-r--r-- sunkan/sunkan 9 2005-10-19 11:16:54 aoeu Error level: 0 -rw-r--r-- sunkan/sunkan 9 2005-10-19 11:16:54 aoeu Error level: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tar-test$ /Andreas Sundstrom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
