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tar: Record size = 8 blocks

Bug #562083 reported by Miek Gieben
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: tar

When creating a tar archive with git-archive. I get a good tar archive, which unpacks on all distros I tried it, expect
on Ubuntu Lucid:
% apt-show-versions -p tar
tar/lucid uptodate 1.22-2

% tar tvf rdup-1.1.5.tar.bz2
tar: Record size = 8 blocks

And nothing happens. Ubuntu Karmic's tar just works.

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Miek Gieben (miek) wrote :

tar-1.23 has the same issue. Maybe this is not a bug in tar, but in GIT.

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Miek Gieben (miek) wrote :

It is not something in git-archive, but it is hard to reproduce. I did spotted a bug in a archive creation script. If I do a

tar cfz archive.tar.bz2 <directory> # name the file .bz2, but use the -z (gzip) compression flag

unpack

tar xvf archive.tar.bz2

sometimes you get the warning mentioned in this bugreport, but not always. If I do this on some test directory everything works ok.

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