[ros-users] rosinstall untar of geometry-1.8.0.tar.bz2 fails

[Traveler]

Never mind... an update to vcstools 0,1,14 fixes it.

What's the best way to keep all these python pieces up to date?

On 04/03/2012 04:36 PM, Traveler wrote:
> Found this trying to test the fuerte .rosinstall...
>
> For the file:
> https://code.ros.org/svn/release/download/stacks/geometry/geometry-1.8.0/geometry-1.8.0.tar.bz2
>
> The following fails:
> tar -xf filename
>
> but the following succeeds:
> tar -xjf filename
>
> no problem with the other archives
> ---
> rosinstall --version
> rosinstall 0.6.12
> vcstools: 0.1.10
> SVN: svn, version 1.7.4 (r1295709);
> Mercurial: Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.1.1);
> Git: 1.7.9.5; 'reset --keep': True, submodules: True
> Tar: (GNU tar) 1.26;
> Bzr: Bazaar (bzr) 2.5.0;
>
> tar version 1.26
>
> error message<<===
> tar: Archive contains `\266k$\215\201=s\326\321-\343\336' where numeric
> off_t value expected
> tar: Archive contains `\367m\331݀\350\035F' where numeric mode_t value
> expected
> tar: Archive contains `ob\347nz)\336\367\\=\a\276' where numeric time_t
> value expected
> tar: Archive contains `\306C\256\262J\201l\t' where numeric uid_t value
> expected
> tar: Archive contains `\260\206\347*\322\301\265`' where numeric gid_t
> value expected
> tar: BZh91AY&SY0_�W�����������������������������������������Ϸn8����D�
> 
K
*T�Ͻ��CF����;��p���u�Xt��l: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01
> 00:59:59
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> ===
>
>
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