At 11:29 AM +0100 7/15/99, Craig Tempest wrote:
>File
>mysql-3.22.25-sun-solaris2.5.1-sparc.tar.gz
>
>For the last 2 days i have been trieng to get a version of mysql for solaris
>2.5.1 with very little success. I have been now in total on 5 different
>mirror sites, and although i can get the file every time (Acceptable fast),
>I then
>
>gunzip -d thefile
>
>followed by
>
>tar vxf thefile
>
>halfway through the tar approx after many directories and files, i get an
>error as follows "tar: directory checksum error"
>
>Note the file size after download is 2262635
> the file size after gzip -d 9021440
>
>
>see last 3 lines after tar vxf
>
>x mysql-3.22.25-sun-solaris2.5.1-sparc/sql-bench/Data/Wisconsin/tenk.data,
>7308s
>x mysql-3.22.25-sun-solaris2.5.1-sparc/sql-bench/README, 4320 bytes, 9 tape
>blos
>x mysql-3.22.25-sun-solaris2.5.1-sparc/sql-bench/Results, 0 bytes, 0 tape
>blocks
>tar: directory checksum error
>#
>
>Although i realise your manual says do gunzip < mysql-VERSION-OS.tar.gz |
>tar xvf -
>but this gives me a Blocksize 0 error.
The manual also points out that Solaris tar doesn't work and that you'll
need GNU tar. Try that instead of Sun's broken version and you should be
fine.
--
Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
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