tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

[jason@openinformatics.com (Jason E. Stewart)]

Hey All,

I was trying my hand at building my first debian package (actually
updating the libxalan1.2 package to the new 1.3 version) and I get a
wierd result with tar:

( cd xml-xalan/c/samples ; tar cf - --exclude CVS . ) | ( cd debian/libxalan1.3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxalan1.3-dev/examples ; tar xf - )
/home/jasons/debian/xalan-1.2/debian/libxalan1.3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxalan1.3-dev/examples
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

When I execute the command without the first subshell, it works. Why
is the first subshell confusing tar?

Thanks,
jas.

  


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