Re: Truncated Tarball generation

Robert Hudson wrote:
> Typical, spent ages looking into it and finally decide to post ... then
> not long after find the problem.
> 
> It looks like the windows tools you use to extract the TarBall is the
> issue here.  I had tried both Windows GNUtar and Winzip, both failed.
> 
> I have just tried LibArchive
> (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libarchive.htm) and it
> extracted fine! (Got some-one else that has winrar installed and works
> fine on that as well)
> 
> So it looks like an issue with the windows extract tools available and
> not ViewVC.  Maybe this would be a useful note for the Windows README?

Ah, yes.  This is kinda what I expected was the case.

I'm surprised that GNUtar didn't work for you, though.  I mean, it is GNU's
tar extensions that we use to pull off the long-filename trick, after all...

> Am I correct in assuming that ViewVC generates the tar on it's own (i.e.
> does not need tar installed) but then needs gzip to already be installed
> in order to compress it?

Yes, you are absolutely correct.

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