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Old 09-04-2007
pkg_add fails
Hi,
I have created a package on a 64 bit FreeBSD machine.
when i install this (on another 64 bit FreeBSD machine )i get the following error :

tar: Skipping pathname containing ..
pkg_add: tar extract of /home/vcr/testpackage.tgz failed!
pkg_add: unable to extract '/home/vcr/testpackage.tgz'!

I cant figure out why this is happening.
when i create the same package on a 32 bit machine , it gets installed easily(on a 32 bit machine)
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Himani
 
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tar

tar(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							    tar(4)

NAME

       tar - format of tar tape archive

DESCRIPTION

       The header structure produced by (see tar(1)) is as follows (the array size defined by the constants is shown on the right):

       All characters are represented in ASCII.  There is no padding used in the header block; all fields are contiguous.

       The  fields magic, uname, and gname are null-terminated character strings.  The fields name, linkname, and prefix are null-terminated char-
       acter strings except when all characters in the array contain non-null characters, including the last character.  The version field is  two
       bytes  containing  the  characters  (zero-zero).  The typeflag contains a single character.  All other fields are leading-zero-filled octal
       numbers in ASCII.  Each numeric field is terminated by one or more space or null characters.

       The name and the prefix fields produce the pathname of the file.  The hierarchical relationship of the file is retained by  specifying  the
       pathname  as a path prefix, with a slash character and filename as the suffix.  If the prefix contains non-null characters, prefix, a slash
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