On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:47:39PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote: > > Hmm. I thought I had t5000 working on Solaris 5.7 a few months ago. > > Unfortunately, the Solaris box I test on is down at the moment, so I > > can't take a closer look. What is the problem? > > Probably: > $ gtar --version > tar (GNU tar) 1.12 Ah, I found out the difference: my box is actually Solaris 5.8. The gtar version there is 1.13 (which is also the version that ships with Solaris 5.9). > $ gtar xf - < ../b.tar > /apps/bin/gtar: Unknown file type 'g' for pax_global_header, extracted as normal file > /apps/bin/gtar: : Could not create directory: No such file or directory > /apps/bin/gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I get the pax header warning, but nothing else. Judging from your find results: > ./a/long_path_to_a_file > ./a/long_path_to_a_file/long_path_to_a_file > ./a/long_path_to_a_file/long_path_to_a_file/long_path_to_a_file > ./a/long_path_to_a_file/long_path_to_a_file/long_path_to_a_file/long_path_to_a_file There should be another directory that is one level deeper, with "file_with_long_path" in it... > ./file_with_long_path which seems to have been extracted in the root instead! So perhaps you are hitting some length limitation in gtar. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
