Please Upload: octave-2.1.71-2

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Mon Aug 15 12:06:00 GMT 2005


Eric Blake wrote:

> When using setup.exe this morning, I got complaints from tar when
> unpacking octave-forge: "error: unknown (or unsupported) file type `K'".
> I believe this is coming from tar, meaning you packaged with a newer
> version of tar than cygwin's current 1.13.25, using options that the older
> tar chokes on.  Hopefully, this will go away when I get tar 1.15.1 working
> (I'm still tracking down a textmode issue), but in the meantime, you may
> want to consider repackaging.

Setup uses its own internal tar routines so the installed version of
/bin/tar is irrelevent.  Still, it would be good to find out what
version of tar created the archive and what option is causing the
problem.

Brian



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