John, The OP said that he gunzipped it in-place before doing tar xvf. It -is- a bug in Solaris tar, and it's known in many different places. One of which is here: http://docs.activestate.com/activetcl/8.5/at.install.html
It appears that there are two separate issues involved. First, Solaris tar doesn't deal with long paths well. Second, Solaris tar expects a slightly different checksum calculation. This is known to occur on the version of tar from Solaris 2.6. I have not heard any statements that it has been fixed in Solaris 10. Considering that a precompiled GNU tar can be obtained from http://sunfreeware.com/, I fail to comprehend the "Solaris is absolutely bug-free, it must be something else's problem" mindset which prevents this workaround's application. From the OP's response to Eric Eberhard: ----- begin quote Hi, Eric That is what I did exactly and failed on "tar xvf" and I don't have problem with 1.2.2. Ryan From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Eric S. Eberhard Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 6:22 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org; openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: Download fips 1.2.3 You need to: gunzip openssl-fips-1.2.3.tar.gz That will create openssl-fips-1.2.3.tar Then tar -xvf openssl-fips-1.2.3.tar Eric ----- end quote Maybe the entire thread should be read, rather than just picking up keywords. To boil this down: Solaris tar is known to be bugged by people who have to support GNU tar-created archives on Solaris. Use GNU tar from sunfreeware.com, and it will work. -Kyle H On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:20 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote:
On 05/24/11 12:53 PM, Kyle Hamilton wrote:I don't think that Solaris's tar hits the bug every time. Do you think Oracle (nee Sun) would ship something that failed 100% of the time instead of 0.1% of the time?bug? no, this is not a bug. native posix tar doesn't read gzip files, gzip does. gnu tar munged gzip into tar to create a hybrid. gunzip -c filename.tar.gz | tar xvf - or gunzip filename.tar.gz tar xvf filename.tar works just great on Solaris and any other Unix platform. -- john r pierce N 37, W 123 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
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