On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:08:20PM -0800, Anthony Valentine wrote:
> 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

Did you look at www.gzip.org?

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