From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 258@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, Simon.Marshall@misys.com,
bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#258: [22.2]: visiting boost_1_35_0.tar.bz2 causes an error
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 21:45:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1w3wsa67.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <utzgshg5z.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 20 May 2008 23:30:32 +0300")
>> > This report is going to be annoying, because
>> > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_35_0.tar.bz2?modtime=1206
>> > 795398&big_mirror=0 is a 22M file. Sorry. This also applies to 22.1.
>>
>> > If I download the file, then visiting it under emacs -Q gives me:
>>
>> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range -256589311 -256588799)
>>
>> The problem appears to be that the file uses a format that tar-mode.el
>> doesn't understand: the errors shows up with the first filename that is
>> longer than 100 chars.
>> It appears to be some GNU tar format whoe description I cannot
>> find anywhere. Basically, the block that is supposed to describe the
>> file is replaced by a block that contains the complete filename (padded
>> to 512 with \0 bytes) and is followed by the actual block:
> It's the ustar format used by pax. We've bumped into this before, I
> think; search the archives. (It's strange, though: I'm quite sure I
> installed a stopgap fix in the last minute before v22.1 hit the FTP
> sites, so maybe I'm confused and this is another problem?)
It doesn't look like the wiki's description of ustar. Do you know where
I could find a description of the format in that tarball?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-21 1:45 UTC|newest]
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2008-05-16 10:51 ` bug#258: [22.2]: visiting boost_1_35_0.tar.bz2 causes an error Marshall, Simon
2008-05-20 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-20 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-21 1:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-05-21 3:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-21 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-24 10:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-25 13:55 ` bug#258: marked as done ([22.2]: visiting boost_1_35_0.tar.bz2 causes an error) Emacs bug Tracking System
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