[AASSAD - Mon Jul 11 04:45:20 2005]:
Show quoted text> Catalyst::Helper::Controller::Scaffold::HTML::Template can't be
> installed as Archive::Tar complain about checksums error.
> (see:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/222796)
>
> I've tested locally (with
>
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AA/AASSAD/Catalyst-Helper-
> Controller-Scaffold-HTML-Template-0.03.tar.gz) and I got the same
> problem using Archive::Tar list_files method.
>
> The strange thing is that tar (GNU tar 1.15.1) handle the archive
> without any problem.
>
> May be my archive is malformed (although it was built using the usual
> 'make dist' method) but I'd like to know what is the problem to
> correct it.
The problem was in some heuristics of Archive::Tar to compensate for slighly broken
tar headers. In this case, due to the convergence of several unlikely factors, it compensated
in the wrong way =/
I've fixed this and released a 1.25 that should be free of this issue. Please upgrade to
this version. Here is the complete change list of 1.5:
* important changes in version 1.25 20/8/2005:
- Move the changes into it's own file
- Add patch from abeltje to make tests pass on VMS. This is *just*
the tests -- code may need some extra work to be reliable (#12678)
- Add faq about accessing 'tar.Z' files, as provided by Paul Marquess
- Add a warning if the read() call from new() fails to return data
- Address #13636, where heuristics were 'upgrading' a file to a
directory if the file had an @LongLink entry, and the shortened
filename ended in a '/'.
- Add ptardiff program as suggested by KWILLIAMS (#13658)
