Re: Debian-installer - tar: unrecognized file type
stappers@STAPPERS.NL schrieb:
>On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:38:43PM +0100,
>karl.kappel@segmueller.de wrote:
>> >> Comments/Problems:
>> >>
>> >> 1. Base system install ended in the error message
>> >> "Debootstrap ended with an error"
>> >> followed by
>> >> "tar: unrecognized file type"
>> >> debootstrap.log contained only a copy of
>> >> "tar: unrecognized file type"
>> >> The error log was empty.
>> >I get exactly the same, but on an old Pentium I, using
>floppy disks too.
>>
>> >I have built the installer - type "netboot" - from cvs
>sources on a
>> >powerpc system,
>> >and get the same error.
>> >I tried different mirrors in different countries but the
>problem is still
>>
>> >the same.
>>
>> >Was somebody able to fix this problem?
>>
>> I've got no answer for this problem and all the other
>postings in this
>> list with the
>> same error ended without a solution.
>
>For a short time there was tar programma the produced tar
>files
>that busybox, the program that debian-installer use for
>tar, not could handle.
>
>AFAIK it is fixed.
>
>> In /target/var/cache/apt/archives I found packages with
>character sequence
>> "1%3a" in its name.
><snip/>
>
>Try a recent version.
>
>
>Geert Stappers
Thanks,
I used busybox-cvs-20040101-4 which worked until last week.
Now I fetched and compiled the latest busybox-cvs-20040101-7
and package names are correct now and tar works again.
Karl Kappel
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