Bug 311 - tar error when extracting slony1-2.1.4-docs.tar.bz2
Summary: tar error when extracting slony1-2.1.4-docs.tar.bz2
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Slony-I
Classification: Unclassified
Component: docs (show other bugs)
Version: devel
Hardware: PC FreeBSD
: medium normal
Assignee: Slony Bugs List
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Reported: 2013-08-18 07:42 UTC by Jimmy Olgeni
Modified: 2013-10-17 06:07 UTC (History)
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Description Jimmy Olgeni 2013-08-18 07:42:35 UTC 
While upgrading the Slony port for FreeBSD, I found this error when
extracting files from slony1-2.1.4-docs.tar.bz2 using bsdtar 2.8.5 and
libarchive 2.8.5:

$ tar xvfz /usr/ports/distfiles/slony1-2.1.4-docs.tar.bz2 
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/LEGALNOTICE.html
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/additionalutils.html
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/admconninfo.html
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/administration.html
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/advanced.html
[...]
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/view.sl-seqlastvalue.html
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/watchdogs.html
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/man.sgml
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/performance.html: Can't create 'slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/performance.html'
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/performance.sgml
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/complexenv.png
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/complexfail.png
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/stylesheet.css
x slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/slony.pdf
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

Apparently, two versions of performance.html exist, and one is a link to
itself:

$ tar tvfz /usr/ports/distfiles/slony1-2.1.4-docs.tar.bz2 | grep performance.html
-rw-r--r--  0 ssinger ssinger   7032 Aug 16 00:09 slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/performance.html
hrw-r--r--  0 ssinger ssinger      0 Aug 16 00:09 slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/performance.html link to slony1-2.1.4/doc/adminguide/performance.html

This error is ignored by GNU tar, so a simple workaround is to use
archivers/gtar to unpack the docs tarball.
Comment 1 Steve Singer 2013-08-19 07:11:39 UTC 
I have rebuilt the tar file as 
slony1-2.1.4-docs-2.tar.bz2 this file should not have performance.html included twice