NetBSD Problem Report #8229

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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 23:04:09 +0200 (MEST)
From: Christoph Badura <bad@klicman.de>
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To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: m68k tar can't handle mysql distfile
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>Number:         8229
>Category:       port-m68k
>Synopsis:       m68k tar can't handle the mysql distfile
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-m68k-maintainer
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 18 14:05:01 +0000 1999
>Closed-Date:    Tue Aug 24 20:16:50 +0000 1999
>Last-Modified:  Tue Aug 24 20:45:57 +0000 1999
>Originator:     Christoph Badura
>Release:        1.4 and -current from Aug. 1
>Organization:
>Environment:
	NetBSD/hp300 1.4 and -current
System: NetBSD sweet-and-full-of-grace 1.4I NetBSD 1.4I (DEBUG) #5: Fri Aug 13 23:10:47 MEST 1999 bad@sweet-and-full-of-grace:/u/0/src/sys/arch/hp300/compile/DEBUG hp300


>Description:
	The 1.4 tar aborts with a core dump when extracting the mysql distfile.
	The -current tar merely reports an ENOENT for a non-sensical file name.
>How-To-Repeat:
	cd pkgsrc/databases/mysql-client; make extract
>Fix:
	No fix yet.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: bad 
State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 24 13:16:50 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
This was a off_t->size_t argument passing bug which I fixed in: 
gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/tar/list.c:1.6 
gnusrc/gnu/usr.bin/tar/gnu.c:1.5 
>Unformatted:

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