Re: Thoughts after an install (well, partway through)
On Thu Jan 06, 2000 at 12:02:10AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
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> If I recall correctly, it was something like this:
> cd tmp
> cp ../drivers.tgz drivers.tgz
>
> But I'm not quite sure about that.
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> > Hmm. Ok, I see this one:
> >
> > mkdir foo
> > mkdir bar
> > cp README foo
> > cp foo/README bar
> >
> > and the last command fails.
>
> Right, it tries to copy to bar/foo/README.
I just checked in a fix into CVS.
> > > in tar (it spewed unprintable characters, even though invoked as tar
> > > -xf, and in addition to successfully unpacking)
> >
> > Hmm. I'm just not seeing this one. Any hints? Do you have the tarball
> > in question?
>
> It was the gunzipped drivers.tar, right off of 2.2.4.
I dunno, I can't make it choke at all.
busybox zcat drivers.tgz | busybox tar -xf -
this just seems to work no matter what I throw at it. If you
can duplicate it, I want to know!
-Erik
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