[Zope-dev] problems downloading CVS tarballs

[Andrew Sydelko]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:57:13PM +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote:
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> To: Andrew Sydelko <andrew@sydelko.org>
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> Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] problems downloading CVS tarballs
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> Andrew Sydelko writes:
>  > When I try to download a CVS tarball of the Zope_2_5-branch branch, I get
>  > a corrupt tar archive. The .../ISO_8859_1_Splitter/src directory 
>  > contains one
>  > c file whose name gets truncated. I'm using gnutar so I'm pretty sure 
>  > it's not
>  > a problem on my end.
>  > 
>  > What tar is used on the CVS server?
> An FAQ!
> 
>   You need GNU tar!

I'm using GNU tar (i probably should've mentioned that). Today I asked
on #zope-dev and got this response: 

[01:47] <ZMartijn> As for CVS tarball downloads; I haven't gotten round to fixing them yet... 

--andy.