[issue1541] tar(1) fails to extract a valid archive

Jordan Gordeev jgordeev at dir.bg
Mon Sep 28 03:26:03 PDT 2009


Hasso Tepper (via DragonFly issue tracker) wrote:
New submission from Hasso Tepper <hasso at estpak.ee>:

https://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS/dist/hosted/kwalletcli/kwalletcli-1.00.tar.gz

$ tar -zxf kwalletcli-1.00.tar.gz
tar: Unrecognized archive format
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
$
Using g(un)zip(1) and tar(1) works:

$ gzip -cd kwalletcli-1.00.tar.gz | tar -xf -
$
  
The file unpacks OK here on DragonFly 2.2.
The MD5 digest of the file I used for testing is 
76ef3c1d611a11ea13dc805d67d82208.






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