Something is likely to have changed on MaxMind's exporting pipeline and the new tarballs are no longer compatible with old Erlang/OTP versions. Erlang/OTP versions 20 and 21 have no problem.
erl_tar got a big rewrite on OTP 20, which presumably fixed whatever was the issue.
g-andrade
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5 years ago
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2019-05-20 20:12.Something is likely to have changed on MaxMind's exporting pipeline and the new tarballs are no longer compatible with old Erlang/OTP versions. Erlang/OTP versions 20 and 21 have no problem.
erl_tar got a big rewrite on OTP 20, which presumably fixed whatever was the issue.