-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 31/07/15 19:12, mancha wrote: > 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]. That's cool. I did try to contact the original dev to get it fixed but got no response. After that we made the necessary changes so that we could remove the dependence so I don't think we will put it back in again now. It's good you've got a fix though for other users who run into this. Thanks Matt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVu8Y8AAoJENnE0m0OYESR/icIAIZbtlHyueMXd5ZzyYgT5S6/ dotbRjtE1iCaF/hxxPSMozIS80EfL4Ukww6zyd6UfSAszMg7fFLXPlWk66QBgRzs wNtG19pw15xrD/Aw5qz3VUZerGGmxi2OOE7r0jFIdrOOgZGVvXMepz7hRYR7kjTN qoIe7uYAmXtvnoagzZKukXA31sRS6MUYnji8cftGfcOcd7Ao6ARDt2R4c3RMC9B1 fIEBvQ/KTRDgRJOc7dUr8eB6SbY8YbWC/CMHpbAk85h7rIkqHETEuZXMO34rPfAG 3i0kYSOnGe7IBmDjEy8pxKaFhOeAEB/mCsZZCqC+FrWAZ0pywiNqtJBwopWiwAs= =l17J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
