Forum OpenACS Q&A: current release broken (tar checksum error)

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1: current release broken (tar checksum error)
Posted by Michel Henry de Generet on 03/25/02 03:48 PM
I am trying to download the latest release of openacs but the tar
file seems broken: tar directory checksum error! Let me know if this
forum is where I should ask such a question.
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2: Response to current release broken (tar checksum error) (response to 1)
Posted by Ben Adida on 03/25/02 04:50 PM
I just checked, and the tar file looks good.... which one are you
looking at?
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3: Response to current release broken (tar checksum error) (response to 1)
Posted by Michel Henry de Generet on 03/25/02 05:11 PM
I did download openacs-4-5-beta-1.tgz from https://openacs.org/sdm/one-package-release.tcl?release_id=52 as well as the one from https://openacs.org/software.

the unzipped tar file is 45895680 bytes length but I allways get: 'tar directory checksum error'. the cksum is 279303383. I did try on two different Solaris systems and in various directories!

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4: Response to current release broken (tar checksum error) (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 03/25/02 06:37 PM
I just downloaded and untar'd the beta-1 tarball with no problem under Linux.

Is the Solaris version of tar somehow incompatble with the GNU tar supplied with Linux?  Or are you just unlucky and getting bad downloads?

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5: Response to current release broken (tar checksum error) (response to 1)
Posted by Michel Henry de Generet on 03/26/02 11:18 AM
Thank you for your answer. Using tar from GNU fix the problem. By the way, the i option of tar let you ignore directory checksum error but some files are missing. I suspect the problem come from long file names.
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6: Response to current release broken (tar checksum error) (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 03/26/02 03:37 PM
Hmmm...that rings a vague bell in my mind, yes, I bet long filenames are the problem.  Thanks for verifying that GNU tar works ...
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7: Re: current release broken (tar checksum error) (response to 1)
Posted by Tracy Adams on 12/11/03 10:23 PM
I just had the same problem.  I aimed a friend who told me to try GNU tar and then came here to see if I could find if others had issues.

I suggest putting this information in the instructions, as this has potential to halt progress from someone just beginning out.  (ie - if the first thing they find is they can't untar the distribution, they might give up)