Subject: does pkgsrc's tar have compatibility problems?
To: Packages Technical List NetBSD Discussion <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/05/2006 11:55:25
I'm trying to untar the following file:

http://www.ledow.org.uk/Freesco/Programs/lpdsrv.tgz

With pkgsrc's tar I get:

gzcat lpdsrv.tgz|~/pkg/bin/tar xvf -
lpdsrv
lpdsrv.c
Makefile
tar: End of archive volume 1 reached
tar: tar vol 1, 3 files, 39424 bytes read, 0 bytes written in 1 secs  
(39424 bytes/sec)
tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file


with MacOS X's GNU tar it works

gzcat lpdsrv.tgz|tar xvf -
lpdsrv
lpdsrv.c
tar: Read 8704 bytes from -
Makefile


tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.14

Can anyone explain what's going wrong?


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