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[I] Maven 4.0.0-SNAPSHOT tar distribution: Minor problems unpacking on AIX only [maven]
bmarwell opened a new issue, #11546:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/issues/11546
### Affected version
4.0.0-SNAPSHOT
### Bug description
On AIX only:
```
# tar xf ../apache-maven-4.0.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.tar.gz
tar: directory checksum error (0 != 73174)
```
But when using GNU tar from the AIX OSS toolbox:
```
# /opt/freeware/bin/tar xf ../apache-maven-4.0.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.tar.gz; echo $?
0
```
Found on the interweb:
* https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/aix-43/0511-169-extracting-tar-file-a-directory-checksum-error-on-media-787196/
* https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-tar-command-not-able-uncompress-ci0i7mlop601-media-package
Citation from the IBM link:
> AIX TAR doesn't uncompress files with long names
So if we have those, let's just ignore AIX's problems and fast-forward into 2025.
However, if we do not have long filenames, this should have worked.
I can tell you from working with AIX, AIX tar always has been problematic, so do not put too much effort into this issue.
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Re: [I] Maven 4.0.0-SNAPSHOT tar distribution: Minor problems unpacking on AIX only [maven]
Posted by "rmannibucau (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
rmannibucau commented on issue #11546:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/issues/11546#issuecomment-4012518362
@bmarwell assumption that tar is aligned on linux/mac behavior sounds quite low to me so not sure we should expect it actually 🤔
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Re: [I] Maven 4.0.0-SNAPSHOT tar distribution: Minor problems unpacking on AIX only [maven]
Posted by "rmannibucau (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
rmannibucau commented on issue #11546:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/issues/11546#issuecomment-4012428325
@bmarwell why not using the zip on AIX?
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Re: [I] Maven 4.0.0-SNAPSHOT tar distribution: Minor problems unpacking on AIX only [maven]
Posted by "bmarwell (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
bmarwell commented on issue #11546:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/issues/11546#issuecomment-4012493194
Yes. But I'd expect it to work nonetheless
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Re: [I] Maven 4.0.0-SNAPSHOT tar distribution: Minor problems unpacking on AIX only [maven]
Posted by "gnodet (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
gnodet commented on issue #11546:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/issues/11546#issuecomment-4777838824
Investigation confirms this is an AIX platform limitation, not a Maven bug.
The Maven binary tar.gz is a standards-compliant POSIX ustar archive (no filenames exceed 99 chars). AIX's native `/usr/bin/tar` has known issues with valid POSIX archives (IBM documented limitation). GNU tar (`/opt/freeware/bin/tar`) handles it correctly.
**Workarounds:** Use GNU tar on AIX, or use the `.zip` distribution instead.
Not a Maven regression — not blocking RC-6.
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Re: [I] Maven 4.0.0-SNAPSHOT tar distribution: Minor problems unpacking on AIX only [maven]
Posted by "gnodet (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
gnodet closed issue #11546: Maven 4.0.0-SNAPSHOT tar distribution: Minor problems unpacking on AIX only
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/issues/11546
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