tar: warning: skipping header 'g'

[remus]

Hi all,

Am trying to setup Rdiff-Web for tinycore, have worked throught some dependencies, and am now trying to extract the tarball for rdiff-web itself and came across the following strange error.

Site

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https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb/blob/master/README.md
Download

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wget --no-check-certificate -O ikus060-rdiffweb.tar.gz https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb/archive/v0.6.5.tar.gz
Extract

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tar -xf ikus060-rdiffweb.tar.gz
tar: warning: skipping header 'g'
I've done a bit of googling and am wondering if this has something to do with busybox not having pax header support ?
I could be way off base on this error.

All comments and suggestions are welcome.

Thanks

[remus]

copied tar.gz file to windows

extracted with 7zip

copied contents back to microcore system

repackaged dir for storage

Will test and see if doing stuff to it on windows screwed up the source files.

[gerald_clark]

To untar a gzipped tar file you need to use the 'z' option.

tar -xzf ikus060-rdiffweb.tar.gz

[remus]

 

Oh man how embarrassing I got into a lazy habbit of just using -xf cause it worked for all the tar.gz files I was downloading.

Thanks gerald_clark, much appreciated.

Remus