Hi,
I've been trying to figure out why untarring gzipped tar files doesn't
work on netbsd-5 on my VAXstation 4000/60 (it worked fine with RC2):
tar xzpf base.tgz
tar: Cannot identify format. Searching...
^C
tar: Signal caught, cleaning up.
tar: unknown format, 32256 bytes skipped in 3 secs (10752 bytes/sec)
and I noticed that even from a brand new tarball from ftp.netbsd.org's
daily builds, some of the files in /usr/bin are OLD:
-r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 2943 May 8 2008 zegrep
-r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 2943 May 8 2008 zfgrep
-r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 2943 May 8 2008 zgrep
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3293 Apr 27 2008 znew
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2984 Jul 6 2005 spell
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2285 Jun 30 2005 shar
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4009 May 1 2004 gzexe
-r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2474 Mar 29 2004 zcmp
-r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2474 Mar 29 2004 zdiff
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1926 Mar 29 2004 zmore
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1377 Dec 28 2003 zforce
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2520 Mar 28 2003 lp
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1515 Jul 27 2000 skeyaudit
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1984 Mar 22 2000 pagesize
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 33 Jul 30 1999 machine
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3262 Sep 12 1998 rcsfreeze
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Dec 29 1994 false
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Dec 29 1994 true
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1922 Dec 7 1994 clear
How is this even possible? If these files are made as a result of a
bulk build, how can they have dates that go back to the 1990s?
This is STRANGE...