On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:52:04AM -0700, Michael Loftis enlightened us:
> --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.

Right, Redhat has backported the fixes from 1.15.1 to 1.14. Which is why
using a version number to ensure compatability is not a good idea IMHO. 

Matt

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