Re: [Condor-users] Solaris 8 archive for 6.7.3 release corrupted?

["Peter F. Couvares" <pfc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Paulson wrote:
> Ian Chesal wrote:
> > Whether I use Gnu tar or the native Solaris 8 posix tar I get an EOF
> > error untarring the condor-6.7.3-solaris28-Sparc-dynamic.tar.Z file.
>
> I did not have a problem untarring it and then running a binary from 
> it on
> a Solaris machine. Untarring on a linux machine worked fine too.

This is almost certainly due to a known, incredibly evil 
incompatibility between certain recent versions of GNU and Solaris tar. 
 Create a tarball with the wrong one, and it won't unpack on half the 
world's unix computers.

I've followed some discussions of the problem on the relevant GNU 
developers' lists, and at the moment it's being considered a feature 
and not a bug.  Makes you want to poke your own eyes out with a stick.

We (the condor developers) need to figure out which version of tar 
we're currently using to produce the Solaris tarball, and use another 
one that's less crapulent.

For the time being, however, just untar it using a different tar, on a 
different platform, and it should work...

-Peter

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