Re: tar mode and package.el can't support bsdtar in mac OSX

[ChinaXing <chen.yack@gmail.com>]

the ._xxx file was generated by Mac sox when creating tar ball,
you can disable this by set environment variable COPYFILE_DISABLE=1:

COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 gnutar cf dir.tar dir

在 2013-4-14，下午5:40，Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> 写道：

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> Am 14.04.2013 um 04:04 schrieb 陈云星:
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>> i create a tarball with bsdtar( the default tar tool in Mac osx) then open it with emacs tar-mode.
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>> but it can't be opened.
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> On Mac OS X 10.6.8, Snow Leopard, I cannot reproduce this. The bsdtar archive I created can be opened with /usr/bin/emacs -Q. What's puzzling is that bsdtar includes the metadata resource forks of regular files into the archive, as in:
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> 	 -rw-r--r--     501/80          452 ./._vishnusmriti.txt
> 	 -rw-r--r--     501/80       402641 vishnusmriti.txt
> 	 -rwxr-xr-x     501/80          323 emacs.sh
> 	 -rw-r--r--     501/80        10913 dot-emacs
> 	 -rw-r--r--     501/80          478 ./._test-vertical.tex
> 	 -rw-r--r--     501/80          268 test-vertical.tex
> 	 -rw-r--r--     501/80          477 ./._ThreeKingdomsCh1.tex.zip
> 	 -rw-r--r--     501/80         9639 ThreeKingdomsCh1.tex.zip
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> What I cannot open successfully is the ZIP archive inside the bsdtar archive.
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> For help give more details! How did you create the bsdtar archive? What was the command line? How did you launch GNU Emacs? Did you try it with -Q, i.e., without any customisation? What is your Mac OS X version? Which version of GNU Emacs are you using?
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>  Pete
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