Distribution Tar File Too Big (fwd)

Distribution Tar File Too Big (fwd)

[Zvi Har'El]

Hi,

I sent this to zsh-users and got no response. Can zsh-workers be a more
appropriate group for the post?

All the best,

Zvi.

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                            Wednesday, 9 Kislev 5760, 17 November 1999, 7:35PM

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:19:27 +0200 (IST)
From: Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>
To: ZSH Users <zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: Distribution Tar File Too Big

Hi,

The distribution tar files of zsh, since version 3.0.6, are twice as big as
they should be:
-rw-r--r--   1 rl       rl         655790 Sep 26  1997 zsh-3.0.5.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 rl       rl        1166968 Aug  1 18:46 zsh-3.0.6.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 rl       rl        1171925 Oct 19 09:46 zsh-3.0.7.tar.gz
(the listing is from my mirror, but the original sizes are the same).

The reason for that is when they generated, the tar script somehow included
each file twice! Just by untarring and re-tarring, you get:
-rw-r-----   1 rl       rl         652631 Nov 15 14:09 zsh-3.0.5.tar.gz
-rw-r-----   1 rl       rl         647759 Nov 15 14:10 zsh-3.0.6.tar.gz
-rw-r-----   1 rl       rl         649918 Nov 15 14:10 zsh-3.0.7.tar.gz
(the small difference in size in 3.0.5 is because of the compression level,
but notice the big difference in 3.0.6 and 3.0.7!)

All the best,

Zvi.

-- 
Dr. Zvi Har'El     mailto:rl@math.technion.ac.il     Department of Mathematics
vox:+972-4-8296534                   Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
fax:+972-4-8296114 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/     Haifa 32000, ISRAEL
``If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.''--Thumper (1942)
                               Monday, 6 Kislev 5760, 15 November 1999, 2:02PM

Re: Distribution Tar File Too Big (fwd)

[Bart Schaefer]

On Nov 17,  7:37pm, Zvi Har'El wrote:
} Subject: Distribution Tar File Too Big (fwd)
}
} I sent this to zsh-users and got no response. Can zsh-workers be a more
} appropriate group for the post?

zsh-users goes to zsh-workers, so we've now seen this twice.

Anyway, sorry for not replying sooner.  The doubled files in the tar are
a result of a bug in the "make ftp-dist" rule in the 3.0.[67] Makefiles,
which mentions both directory names (which tar recursively archives) and
individual filenames (which tar then archives *again*).

Since this doesn't cause any problems with the functioning of the resulting
zsh installation, it didn't seem to be important enough to fix until there
were enough other changes to necessitate 3.0.8 (or until it became clear
that there would be no 3.0.8, which might happen sooner).

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