On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:05:52AM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: > Mark wrote: > > 1. GNU TAR 1.14 is required to unpack the source releases. Other > > versions of tar are likely to report errors or silently unpack the > > file incorrectly. > > Now hold on there, bubaloo. > I thought the warnings from older versions of tar were benign. > The warnings I'm seeing from tar-1.13.19 are > tar: pax_global_header: Unknown file type 'g', extracted as normal file > Searching for this error message, I find a quote from Linus Torvalds, > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/18/5):
The problem has nothing to do with warnings from tar, which are neither errors nor silent failures. I believe a file either got skipped or unpacked with the wrong name. > 1. GNU TAR 1.14 is recommended to unpack the source releases. Other > versions of tar may issue the warning > tar: pax_global_header: Unknown file type 'g', extracted as normal file > and/or silently create spurious files named 'pax_global_header'. > These are artifacts reflecting the fact that the tarballs were > created with git. The tarballs most certainly weren't created with git. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
