From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
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: Wed, 21 May 2008 06:27:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur6bwgwvu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1w3wsa67.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: 258@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, Simon.Marshall@misys.com,
> bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 21:45:14 -0400
>
> > 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?
Not at the moment, no. I will look.
In case you are right, and this _is_ GNU tar format, it should be
described in the GNU Tar docs, and maybe you will find more in the GNU
Tar sources.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-21 3:27 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <jwvve12o5on.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>
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
2008-05-21 3:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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