Well you have obviously found out how useful it is to publish these problems in blogs instead of reporting them. If you read your blog you would have seen a response which stated
I reported it as soon as I noticed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Its nothing todo with pause, why did you not use the feedback form on the site ?
Well the reason is simple, there was a problem unpacking the tar file
tar zxv --no-same-owner -f PPM-Repositories-0.07.tar.gz PPM-Repositories-0.07/ tar: Archive value 4294967295 is out of gid_t range -2147483648..2147483647
This is on solaris, on linix it is fine as gid_t is unsigned on linux
but signed on solaris
I see, so what's gonna happen now (do I need to re-upload or what)?
If you can create one without such a large gid then that would work. But we need to solve this better.
What are you using to create the tar file and on what platform?
cygwin's tar on win32 via `nmake dist'
So its possible that others will suffer the same problem. Although only your uploads seem to be having this problem at the moment. Thats not to say others will not in future.
I will probably need to patch GNU tar to ignore extracted uid and gid when not running as root. There is no reason to check them as they will not be used anyway.
So [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not the right place to report this?
No, the feedback form on the search site is
Graham.
