Re: Testing pax on platforms was Re: Using pax instead of cpio in dist.sh

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:57:04PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote:
> *cough* I think you're a little too confident here... I tried pax
> tonight:
>
> $ gzip -dc subversion-1.0.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> file doesn't even think it is a tar file:
> $ file subversion-1.0.1.tar
> subversion-1.0.1.tar: data
>
> I'll try it on a different machine later. I tried this on amd64 and
> it's possible pax doesn't work righ ton this platform for whatever
> reason (i.e. a bug).

Okay found the issue. It was a minor error in the dist.sh script that
probably wouldn't show up in most peoples environments. It was
capturing the output of the cd command. Since I have $CDPATH set the cd
was ambiguous so bash spat out what dir it really changed to. Commit
to fix coming up on trunk soon.

I'll post a new thread with URLs to test tarballs.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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