Re: [Cdrecord-support] cdrtools-2.01.01a27 ready

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Ismail Dönmez wrote:

Hi,
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 18:14:00 Joerg Schilling wrote:
  

NEW features of cdrtools-2.01.01a27:
    

There is a problem with the tarball. Our build system uses python to unpack 
and build the cdrtools and I get this error when unpacking the tarball:

exceptions.TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL 
bytes), not str

meaning one directory has NULL in it somehow. Any idea how this happened? 
Unpacking the tarball with tar and repackaging fixes the problem but 
according to docs a filename should not contain NULL (POSIX wise).
  

star generates output which can not always be read with standard distribution tar programs. One of the reasons we stopped using it, we need to write files people can read without having to download a package which was in star format the last time we looked. I think it requires some obscure POSIX tar feature no one else uses.

In other words it's technically "standard" but it's not useful for distribution, only for backups.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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