Problem with tar and install-Clam-0.94.2-SA-3.2.5

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jan 16 11:58:42 GMT 2009


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On 16/1/09 11:38, Paul Welsh wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm sure this is a newbie error but I'm having trouble with tar.  When I
> extracted the MailScanner-4.74.16-1.rpm.tar.gz file, I found that "tar xzvf"
> gives me an error - says it's not in gzip format.  However, "tar xvf" works
> fine.
>
> When it comes to extracting install-Clam-0.94.2-SA-3.2.5 however, I get the
> usual "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format" but when I try tar without the z
> option I get:
>
> # tar xvf install-Clam-SA-latest.tar.gz
> install-Clam-0.94.2-SA-3.2.5/
> install-Clam-0.94.2-SA-3.2.5/perl-tar/
> install-Clam-0.94.2-SA-3.2.5/perl-tar/Data-Dump-1.08.tar.gz
> install-Clam-0.94.2-SA-3.2.5/perl-tar/ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.18.tar.gz
> install-Clam-0.94.2-SA-3.2.5/perl-tar/version-0.7203.tar.gz
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> If I go into install-Clam-0.94.2-SA-3.2.5/perl-tar I see:
>
> Data-Dump-1.08.tar.gz
> ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.18.tar.gz
> version-0.7203.tar.gz
>
> and I can extract the first two files using tar xzvf, but when I try "tar
> xzvf version-0.7203.tar.gz" or "tar xvf version-0.7203.tar.gz" I get the
> following error.  Any ideas?  I'm running CentOS 5.2 with kernel
> 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 and GNU tar 1.15.1.
>
> # tar xzvf version-0.7203.tar.gz
> version-0.7203/
> version-0.7203/t/
> version-0.7203/t/02derived.t
> version-0.7203/t/coretests.pm
> version-0.7203/t/03require.t
> version-0.7203/t/01base.t
> version-0.7203/lib/
> version-0.7203/lib/version.pod
> version-0.7203/lib/version/
> version-0.7203/lib/version/typemap
> version-0.7203/lib/version.pm
> version-0.7203/vperl/
> version-0.7203/vperl/vpp.pm
> version-0.7203/vutil/
> version-0.7203/vutil/lib/
> version-0.7203/vutil/lib/version/
> version-0.7203/vutil/lib/version/vxs.pm
> version-0.7203/vutil/ppport.h
> tar: Skipping to next header
>
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>    

Jules

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