[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Porting File-Roller to Maemo

[From: Michael Flaig]

Hi,

afaik the busybox of IT2006 doesn't have a full tar ...
You might need to modify the command that file-roller executes...

or you might ship the full featured gnu tar :-)

HTH,

Michael 

Am Donnerstag, den 13.07.2006, 12:37 +0530 schrieb
pavankumar.patale at wipro.com:
> Hi,
>  
> I have ported File-roller application to maemo environment.  The x86
> version seems to work fine
> interms of creating different compressed formats.  But, the
> same operations does not seem to work
> on the N770.
>  
> The respective root straps have been downloaded from
> http://repository.maemo.org/stable/mistral/
>  
> The errors are  something like this :-
>  
>    while extracting the file
>          error: tar: unrecognized option --force-local 
>          BusyBox v1.01(Debian 3:1.01-4.osso10) multi-call binary 
>          usage: tar -[cxztvo] [-f Target] [-C DIR] [FUKE(s)] 
>  
> After commenting the --force-local 
>     while extracting the file, if that contains the folder and files
> and folder 
>        error: tar: invalid tar magic.
>  
> Could anyone pls throw some light on this problem.
>  
> Thanks,
> Pavan