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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2003/01/21 00:36:32 UTC

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 16278] - MacOS X tar doesn't properly unarchive supplied tar files.

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MacOS X tar doesn't properly unarchive supplied tar files.

conor@cortexebusiness.com.au changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|Blocker                     |Minor
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX



------- Additional Comments From conor@cortexebusiness.com.au  2003-01-20 23:36 -------
The website from which most people download the tar files has a warning about this

http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/bindownload.cgi

"Ant is distributed as zip, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives - the contents are the
same. Please note that the tar.* archives contain file names longer than 100
characters and have been created using GNU tar extensions. Thus they must be
untarred with a GNU compatible version of tar."

Since we need > 100 character paths, non-GNU versions of tar are not suitable.

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