[Opensim-users] Creating oar file from folder

[Tom Willans]

Thanks Christopher,

That seems to work fine ( provided I have not altered the contents -  
but that is something I need to check out further )

Regards
Tom

On 27 Apr 2009, at 19:26, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:

> Christopher Yeoh wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:00:55 +0100
>> Tom Willans <tom.willans at bessacarr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to generate a oar file based upon the folder from a
>>> decompressed file. I am using the command
>>>
>>> tar cvzf myoarfile.tar.gz * from with the folder itself ( this is  
>>> now
>>> readable).  What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Try instead:
>>
>> tar cvfz myoarfile.tar.gz */*
>>
>> when you're in the directory.
>>
>> This under most circumstances avoids including directory entries  
>> into the
>> archive. At one stage the dearchiver was made to be a bit more  
>> tolerant
>> of the input like that but the code appears to have regressed a bit.
>
> Is this definitely the case right now?  From which I last  
> effectively tested this (which wasn't that long ago), there
> were no problem with directory entries in the tar.  If this is no  
> longer the case then a bug report in Mantis with the
> offending oar file attached would be much appreciated.
>
>>
>> Occasionally you'll have oar files with deeper directory  
>> hierarchies and you'll need
>> to firstly produce a file list and get send that to tar directly  
>> to avoid
>> all the directories being included in the archive.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Chris.
>
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