On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:21:07PM +0100, Matt Caswell wrote: > > > On 27/07/15 20:50, Pavneet Jauhal wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > When I attempt to untar OpenSSL 1.0.2d tar-ball, I get an unexpected > > failure. Error looks something like this; > > > > openssl-1.0.2d/VMS/VMSify-conf.pl openssl-1.0.2d/VMS/WISHLIST.TXT > > tar: A lone zero block at 52140 > > > > I only see this with GNU tar. > > GNU tar is stricter than other tar programs. It expects to see a > double zero block at the end of the tar file, and in this case there > is only one. > > This is caused by a bug in a program called tardy which we use during > the release process to clean up our tar files. Due to this problem we > have now dropped its use so (hopefully) this shouldn't happen again. > > The error message is actually only a warning. The tar file should have > still extracted successfully. It is safe to ignore this. Hi Matt. I took a look at tardy after reading your email. If the OpenSSL project would benefit from continued usage of tardy, you can re-build tardy 1.28 after applying my POSIX trailing zero-records fix [1]. Cheers. --mancha [1] http://sf.net/projects/mancha/files/misc/tardy-1.28_posix-eoa.diff -- https://twitter.com/mancha140 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/attachments/20150731/d17c9875/attachment.sig>
