Re: Apple switched to BSDtar from GNUtar with Leopard

I was able to un-tar readline without any hitch.

tar -xf readline-6.0.tar
c-76-123-226-197:src donfox1$ ls
postgresql-8.4.1.tar.bz2 readline-6.0 readline-6.0.tar

On Oct 31, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Hassan Schroeder wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Don Fox <donfox1(at)mac(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> A little research shows that Apple modified tGNUtar o be resource
>> fork aware
>> and, I guess, did the same with BSDtar! Maybe this points to the
>> problem.
>> Certainly there is nothing wrong with the tar files on the site!
>
> You sure? FWIW, I get the same thing on my Linux dev box:
>
> hassan(at)ceylon:/tmp> tar tvfz postgresql-8.4.1.tar.gz
>
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> hassan(at)ceylon:/tmp> uname -a
> Linux ceylon 2.6.13-15.15-smp #1 SMP Mon Feb 26 14:11:33 UTC 2007
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> hassan(at)ceylon:/tmp>
>
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