[Python-Dev] TAR problems under Solaris (original) (raw)

Reinhold Birkenfeld reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net
Wed Jan 4 22:01:21 CET 2006


Recently, someone on dclpy posted about an error he got when he tried to unpack the Python distribution tarball with Sparc Solaris 9's tar:

tar: directory checksum error

With GNU tar, it worked correctly.

Is this a known issue, or is it irrelevant?

Reinhold

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