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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: AW: Problem with busybox tar.
From:       Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2009-03-31 23:18:32
Message-ID: 200904010118.32599.vda.linux () googlemail ! com
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On Tuesday 31 March 2009 09:14, Emery, Jacques wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> May I come back to my problem with the tar command in busybox 1.13.2.
> Due to a stress situation, I made some unfortunate mistake when sending you the "symptoms" last time.
> 
> The problem is the following:
> When I try to untar the attached .tgz file with:
> 
>   tar -xzvf rec_var.tgz
> 
> I get an error message : "tar: short read"
> 
> We compiled busybox with two different option sets.
> With both generated busybox versions I get the same error.
> 
> Note that with busybox 1.10.1 we had no problem.

Thanks, I found the problem. Try this patch:

http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.13.3/busybox-1.13.3-tar.patch

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