[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Bug-tar] Possible tar bug
|
From: |
Paul Eggert |
|
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] Possible tar bug |
|
Date: |
Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:44:37 -0800 |
|
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 |
On 12/17/2010 07:40 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> "15015536189 of type off_t is out of range 0..8589934591".
That looks like a message generated by tar 1.13, released in 1999.
(You can check this by running "tar --version".)
Please try an up-to-date version; lots of bugs in this area have been
fixed since 1999. The current version is tar 1.25, released in
November.
As far as I know, the oldest version of tar still supported by
Ubuntu is 1.15.1 (dated 2004; in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS dated 2006), and
even that old version of tar didn't generate those messages.
I could be wrong about that; but even so, we're mostly interested
in bugs in the current version.