On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Jan 10, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
|
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes:
| >
| > | I'd like to have some more information about the tar binary
on OSX.
| >
| > More specifically what tar formats it actually supports.
|
| tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1
|
| That's the version installed via fink <http://
fink.sourceforge.net/>,
| I believe as a normal part of the fink installation (which is the
| easiest thing to use on Mac to get automake 1.9 and gettext). They
| simply point to <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/> for information.
That version is the same as mine. ustar should work with that unless
the fink people has turned those formats off.
| Apple's version is: tar (GNU tar) 1.14
this might not have it
I've done a bit more digging. It turns out Firefox on Mac defaults to
using Stuffit Expander to decompress .tar.gz files, and it's all
Stuffit's fault. Both versions of tar (1.15 and 1.14) succeed in
unpacking the file.
We'll need to include a note to that effect somewhere (on the wiki,
at least) -- but not (or at least not simply) in the Install.MacOSX
file, since that doesn't get unpacked unless the note is not needed.
Bennett
