Subject: bin/5127: pax incompatible with tar
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/07/1998 12:51:19
>Number: 5127
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: pax incompatible with tar
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 7 04:05:00 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Lennart Augustsson
>Organization:
Chalmers University
>Release: NetBSD 980306
>Environment:
>Description:
pax is unable to correctly unpack files that tar can handle.
Since pax is used to unpack the files in pkgsrc/distfiles
many packages cannot be built.
>How-To-Repeat:
cd pkgsrc/x11/asclock
make fetch
pax -zrf ../distfiles/asclock.tgz
pax will now say
pax: End of archive volume 1 reached
ATTENTION! pax archive volume change required.
Ready for archive volume: 2
Input archive name or "." to quit pax.
Archive name >
You can unpack with tar instead and it works just fine.
>Fix:
I've not looked into it.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: