Subject: bin/20301: pax-as-tar will not extract some gzipped tar files
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <jwise@anduin.reefedge.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/11/2003 15:17:16
>Number:         20301
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       pax-as-tar will not extract some gzipped tar files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 11 12:15:01 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6N (sources as of 2/11/2003)
>Organization:
				Jim Wise
				jim@reefedge.com
>Environment:
System: NetBSD anduin.reefedge.com 1.6N NetBSD 1.6N (ANDUIN.NOMP-1.545) #2: Wed Feb 5 12:10:18 EST 2003 jwise@anduin.reefedge.com:/home/NetBSD/source/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ANDUIN.NOMP i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	Some gzipped tar files, including the distfiles for pkgsrc/textproc/crimson and pkgsrc/devel/jakarta-ant
	cause problems when using the new pax-as-tar to do the extract stage of a pkg build (or to extract these
	files by hand).  The error message is

		...
		===> Extracting for crimson-1.1.3
		===> Required installed package sun-jre13-[0-9]*: sun-jre13-1.0.7nb1 found
		tar: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
		*** Error code 1
		...
>How-To-Repeat:
	cd /usr/pkgsrc/textproc/crimson && make extract
>Fix:
	unknown at this time
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: