tar warning

2009-08-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Sinve tar-1.21, there are spurious messages when extracting like: Record size = 8 blocks There is a fix for this in the git repository. Should we apply this or just wait for the next release of tar? Version 1.22 was released in March and 1.21 in December, so I'd think a new release is probab

Re: tar warning

2009-08-02 Thread Jim Gifford
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Sinve tar-1.21, there are spurious messages when extracting like: > > Record size = 8 blocks > > There is a fix for this in the git repository. Should we apply this > or just wait for the next release of tar? Version 1.22 was released > in March and 1.21 in December, so I'd

Re: tar warning

2009-08-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:41:39 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Sinve tar-1.21, there are spurious messages when extracting like: > > Record size = 8 blocks > > There is a fix for this in the git repository. Should we apply this or > just wait for the next release of tar? I'd suggest we just wait for

Re: tar warning

2009-08-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:41:39 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Sinve tar-1.21, there are spurious messages when extracting like: >> >> Record size = 8 blocks >> >> There is a fix for this in the git repository. Should we apply this or >> just wait for the next release of tar?

Re: tar warning

2009-08-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:20:15 -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: > Bruce over in CLFS we have a patch that add's the current man-page > without the tools. > http://svn.cross-lfs.org/svn/repos/cross-lfs/trunk/patches/tar-1.22-man_page-1.patch Hi Jim, that patch looks good to me. Have you tried submitting

Re: tar warning

2009-08-02 Thread Jim Gifford
Matthew Burgess wrote: On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:20:15 -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: Bruce over in CLFS we have a patch that add's the current man-page without the tools. http://svn.cross-lfs.org/svn/repos/cross-lfs/trunk/patches/tar-1.22-man_page-1.patch Hi Jim, that patch looks good to me