bb tar issues
Carlo Landmeter
clandmeter at gmail.com
Thu May 6 12:05:26 UTC 2010
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 May 2010 10:39, Carlo Landmeter wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I have created 2 archives of the same src on my dreamhost.com account.
>> When i try to tar zxvf with (BusyBox v1.16.0) on alpinelinux i get this msg:
>>
>> tar: corrupted octal value in tar header
>>
>> When i install GNU tar it works as expected.
>>
>> Following files are created with tar (GNU tar) 1.16:
>>
>> http://alpine.nethq.org/clandmeter/src/freepbx3.tgz
>> http://alpine.nethq.org/clandmeter/src/freepbx30.tgz
>
> tar header format:
>
> char mode[8]; /* 100-107 */
> char uid[8]; /* 108-115 */
> char gid[8]; /* 116-123 */
> char size[12]; /* 124-135 */
> char mtime[12]; /* 136-147 */
> char chksum[8]; /* 148-155 */
>
> In freepbx3.tgz after unpacking:
>
> 00000000 66 72 65 65 70 62 78 2d 76 33 2f 00 00 00 00 00 |freepbx-v3/.....|
> 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> 00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> 00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> 00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> 00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> 00000060 00 00 00 00 30 30 30 30 37 37 35 00 80 00 00 00 |....0000775.....|
> 00000070 00 2d 1f c9 31 36 36 31 36 30 37 00 30 30 30 30 |.-..1661607.0000|
> 00000080 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 00 31 31 33 37 30 33 32 30 |0000000.11370320|
> 00000090 36 33 37 00 30 31 33 32 34 32 00 20 35 00 00 00 |637.013242. 5...|
> ...
>
> uid field is: 80 00 00 00 00 2d 1f c9
>
> Wow. It means uid is > 2097151 (07777777 octal).
> DO you really have such huge uid when you pack the file?
I packed this from the shell I have from www.dreamhost.com. I don't
know their infrastructure but i guess its big as this is a low cost
hosting provider.
> --
> vda
>
carlo
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