Amanda-Users

Re: amanda 2.5.0 : tar 1.15 required ?

2006-03-31 14:07:02
Subject: Re: amanda 2.5.0 : tar 1.15 required ?
From: Michael Loftis <mloftis AT wgops DOT com>
To: Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu>, Mailing List Amanda User <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:52:04 -0700


--On March 31, 2006 1:36:36 PM -0500 Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu> wrote:


That doesn't mean that 1.15 should be required by the spec file. tar 1.14
from Redhat works just fine
(see https://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html)


I don't know about Redhat tar 1.14 but GNU tar 1.14 is severely broken. It 'seems' to create ok archives, but in reality a lot of the time creates garbage even it can't read. Tan into this quite a bit, one symptom is the 'invalid base64 header' error.