In the processes of upgrading  Amanda, I decided to upgrade GNU Tar as
well.  I found this in the READ for tar 1.3.25:

   If you see the following symptoms:

      $ tar -xzf file.tar.gz
      gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
      tar: Child returned status 2

   then you have encountered a gzip incompatibility that
   should be fixed in gzip test version 1.3, which as of
   this writing is available at 
   <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/>.  You can work around
   the incompatibility by using a shell command like
   `gzip -d <file.tar.gz | tar -xzf -'.


Unfortunately, /gnu/gzip doesn't exist on that server so I have to go
find gzip 1.3 elsewhere.  If anyone know where I can get it, please let
me know.

Anthony Valentine


On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:55, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> 
> On 23 Sep 2002, Anthony Valentine wrote:
> 
> > When I manually extract a tar image from tape, then list or extract it's
> > contents, I seem to always get the following:
> >
> >   gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
> >   gtar: Child returned status 2
> >   gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> 
> What version amanda is your server?  This sounds like a bug that was
> supposedly fixed somewhere along the 2.4.3xxx timeframe.  We ran into
> something like this when developing our amanda AFS client, and the AFS
> utilities were not so forgiving.  We hacked around it in order to get
> going, but I remember John reporting he'd checked in a fix.
> 
> -Mitch
> 
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