Re: Broken file in ALL cygwin mirrors report! socat-debuginfo

[Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

Am 20.10.2018 um 18:03 schrieb Houder:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 16:59:16, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> [snip]
> ..
>
>> However setup requires an empty compressed tar file.
>> there are several empty tar of size "32" byte in the
>> repository
>>
>> for 64 bit
>>
>> $ grep ^install setup.ini | grep " 32 " | wc -l
>> 300
>
> tar file?
>
> ... uhm, just as an additional note to your post:
>
> 64-@@ grep ^install: setup.ini | grep " 108 " | wc -l
> 1065
> (real tar files (empty), compressed using xz)
>
> If the empty "tar file" is created like this:
>
> 64-@@ touch empty.tar (an empty file, but not a tarball!)
> 64-@@ xz empty.tar
>
> one will get files of size 32 bytes ...
>
> However:
>
> 64-@@ tar cJf empty.tar.xz --files-from=/dev/null
>        (or: tar cJfT empty.tar.bz2 /dev/null)
>
> one will get files of size 108 bytes (of real tar files).
>
> The latter ones will properly untar, but not the files of size 32.
>
> (yes, in both cases, no files will be produced)
>
> Regards,
> Henri
>

I know, it is the uncompress phase that complains on empty
file. tar and setup accept both versions

Regards
Marco




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