[Opensim-dev] Bad tar file

[Terry Ford]

I too found the same thing and also needed to correct this before it 
would compile.

coreone wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was going to file this with the bug tracker, but I don't think it 
> has to do specifically with OpenSim.  Basically, on the Download 
> section of the website (http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Downloads) you 
> can download a pre-packaged version of the stable release (0.5.0) with 
> the following link:
>
> http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tags/0.5.0-release.tar.gz?view=tar
>
> This seems to work fine, except for the fact that there must be some 
> way that viewcvs.cgi is tar'ing the file that has a limit on the 
> length of the file paths.  The box I am compiling OpenSim on is CentOS 
> 5.0.  I was running into trouble compiling OpenSim from the 0.5.0 tar 
> ball due to an error in the 
> OpenSim/Region/Terrain.BasicTerrain/TerrainEngine.cs source file.  It 
> couldn't find the AerobicErosion function, so I went looking for it.  
> That's when I found the 
> OpenSim/Region/Terrain.BasicTerrain/libTerrainBSD/Channel/Manipulators/AerobicErosion. 
> file (that's right, no cs extension).  After some twiddling, I found 
> that the directory had several incorrectly named files 
> (HydraulicErosio, ThermalWeatheri) and when I looked at a listing of 
> the tar file (tar -ztf), the incorrect file names all had the same 
> path length (i.e. the paths were truncated).  I looked at the SVN 
> version and they were named correctly, so I went back into the release 
> tree and renamed all the files correctly and re-ran runprebuild.sh and 
> nant and it compiled without a problem.
>
> I downloaded the tar file again, this time on Windows, and opened it 
> with WinZip.  The files in that directory were named as follows:
> AerobicErosion.0000644
> HydraulicErosio0000644
> NavierStrokes.cs0000644
> ThermalWeatheri0000644
>
> Just to make sure it wasn't tar, I tar'ed the corrected tree and there 
> were no truncated file names.  Just thought I would let you know since 
> others may be experiencing the same problem.
>
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