Re: Tar problems

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:46:00AM -0500, Vyakaranam, Prakash wrote:
> I've had these problems even with 0.30.0 release...
>
> I downloaded the latest subversion tar ball 0.31.0.tar.gz.
>
> Ftp'd in binary format to the unix box running Solaris 8 (Ultra-2).
> I keep getting this directory checksum error.
>
> x subversion-0.31.0/subversion/bindings/java/javahl/src/org/tigris, 0 bytes,
> 0 tape blocks
> x
>

Try using GNU tar, which is available as a Solaris package from
http://www.sunfreeware.com/.

Solaris tar has some very serious bugs^Wlimitations, especially with long path
names, which tend to occur quite frequently with java applications.

--ben

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Received on Thu Oct 16 18:34:31 2003