Re: ELPA + gnuwin32 tar (Issues, Help with packaging)

From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ELPA + gnuwin32 tar (Issues, Help with packaging)
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:08:05 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81pquiokqq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81tyjuol1e.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:01:41 +0530")

For the sake of record, file attributes of ELPA tar as is distributed
now:

,----
| 
| bash-3.2$ tar tvf org-20101101.tar  | head
| drwxr-xr-x cdominik/pg1095168 0 2010-11-01 12:30 org-20101101/
| -rw-r--r-- cdominik/pg1095168 17889 2010-11-01 12:30 org-20101101/ob-tangle.el
| -rw-r--r-- cdominik/pg1095168 45603 2010-11-01 12:30 org-20101101/org-remember.el
| -rw-r--r-- cdominik/pg1095168  8294 2010-11-01 12:30 org-20101101/org-bibtex.el
| -rw-r--r-- cdominik/pg1095168  1417 2010-11-01 12:30 org-20101101/ob-matlab.el
| 
`----

Jambunathan K.

>>> Thanks for trying out ELPA.
>
>>> May I ask you what version of Emacs you use and what OS you run on?
>> Sorry I shuld have mentioned that. It's GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1
>> (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-10-18 on windows 7 Home Premium
>>>
>>> There is a comment in the package manager that there is a dependency on
>>> GNU tar. May be the tar binary that you are running is not "GNU tar
>>> compatible"
>> I use the one from gnuwin32. It says tar (GNU tar) 1.22.
>
> On my own machine I have issues while using gnuwin32 tar for
> extraction. I encounter *no* errors while using Cygwin tar (See the
> enclosed logs down below)
>
> While running the following command:
> - tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el
>
> the error reporter in my setup is:
> ,---- [error with gnuwin32 tar on my machine]
> | "tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\000'\347\033" where octal uid_t
> | value expected"
> `----
>
> while the error encountered in your setup is:
> ,---- [error with gnuwin32 as reported by you]
> | "tar: Archive value 297315 is out of gid_t range 0..65535"
> `----
>
> The thing that seems common in both these errors is that it relates to
> the username and groupnames (uid_t and gid_t). This has something to do
> with how tar archives are created on build machine.
>
> I don't have much experience with packaging. I am dumping my analysis
> hoping that someone would offer a quick fix for the problem.
>
> For the sake of reference, here is how the elpa archives are built.
>
> ,----
> | pkg:
> |         [...]
> | 	rm -rf org-$(PKG_TAG) org-$(PKG_TAG).tar
> | 	$(MKDIR) org-$(PKG_TAG)
> | 	cp -r $(PKG_FILES) org-$(PKG_TAG)
> | 	echo "(define-package \"org\" \"$(PKG_TAG)\" \"$(PKG_DOC)\" $(PKG_REQ))" > org-$(PKG_TAG)/org-pkg.el
> | 	tar cf org-$(PKG_TAG).tar org-$(PKG_TAG) --remove-files
> `----
>
>
> ,---- [Using GnuWin32 tar is problematic]
> | C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin>tar --version
> | tar (GNU tar) 1.13
> | 
> | Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> | This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> | warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> | 
> | Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
> | 
> | C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin>tar -xOf org-20101101.tar
> | org-20101101/org-pkg.el 
> | 
> | tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\000'\347\033" where octal uid_t
> | value expected (define-package "org" "20101101" "Outline-based notes
> | management and organizer" nil) tar: Error exit delayed from previous
> | errors
> `----
>
> ,---- [Using Cygwin tar is smooth]
> | 
> | bash-3.2$ tar --version
> | tar (GNU tar) 1.23
> | Packaged by Cygwin (1.23-1)
> | Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> | License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> | This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> | There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> | 
> | Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
> | 
> | bash-3.2$ tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el
> | 
> | (define-package "org" "20101101" "Outline-based notes management and
> | organizer" nil)
> | 
> `----
>
>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't read whole string")
>>   signal(error ("Can't read whole string"))
>>   error("Can't read whole string")
>>   package-read-from-string("tar: Archive value 297315 is out of gid_t range 0..65535\n(define-package \"org\" \"20101101\" \"Outline-based notes management and organizer\" nil)\ntar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors\n")
>>   (progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string (shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el"))))
>>   eval((progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string (shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el")))))
>>   eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
>>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>
> Jambunthan K.
>
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