>> Was the 2.3b2 tarfile generated in such a way that it requires GNU
>> tar?
Barry> I generated the tarball using the PEP 101 suggestion, which is
Barry> the same way I generated the 2.2.3 tarball:
Barry> tar cf - Python-2.3b2 | gzip -9 > Python-2.3b2.tgz
Barry> so it's possible there are GNU tar-isms in the file (I don't have
Barry> access to a non-GNU tar).
I just tried creating a tarfile on my Mac using "tar cfoO". The -o and -O
flags are described as
-O Write old-style (non-POSIX) archives.
-o Don't write directory information that the older (V7) style
tar is unable to decode. This implies the -O flag.
I still got a directory checksum error. Next step was to try extracting the
tarfile (that generated with -o and -O) on another Solaris 8 system. That
worked fine, so I will assume the problem is on the first machine I tried.
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