Re: [Bug-tar] "invalid sparse archive member" during extract with 1.14

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> and then I try to extract part of the archive like this:
> 
>   tar xzvpSf foo.tgz --listed-incremental=foo.snap -b 1024 ./etc/gdm
> 
> I get a bunch of warnings like this:
> 
> tar: ./home/rlb/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/cert8.db: invalid sparse 
> archive member

There was a bug in the algorithm of recognizing sparse archive
members. It is fixed in the recent versions. Please try version
1.14.91. It is available from alpha.gnu.org

Regards,
Sergey