'ello Clint On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:19:04AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > > cpio: Malformed number > > cpio: Malformed number > This happens because the devmajor and devminor fields in the > tar header are both NULs, and cpio is trying to parse them as > octal strings.
> Possibly this means it is assuming the wrong tar format. Also normal tar is generating things it can't understand: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/cpio-test$ ls [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/cpio-test$ touch foo bar baz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/cpio-test$ tar czf foo.tar.gz foo bar baz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/cpio-test$ zcat foo.tar.gz |cpio -idv cpio: Malformed number cpio: Malformed number foo cpio: Malformed number cpio: Malformed number bar cpio: Malformed number cpio: Malformed number baz 4 blocks It's tar 1.16.1-1 It does seem to successfully extract the archives I through at it but I don't know what the implication of just removing the error message would be. -- _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+*+- fou, con et anglais _ (_) "No one - no government agency has jurisdiction over the (_) (_) truth." - Mulder (_) \___ ___/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
