Creating TAR Error

[ericzzh]

Hi,

Could you please help check this issue? thanks.

• Detected tar variant: GNU
• Converted to full path: "/Users/zzh/" "ace-window-20200606.1259" -> "/Users/zzh/ace-window-20200606.1259"
• Running tar: "tar" ("cf" "/Users/zzh/ace-window-20200606.1259.tar" "--anchored" "--exclude=.elc" "--exclude=~" "--exclude=.so" "--exclude=.dylib" "--exclude=.dll" "--exclude=/bin" "--exclude=*/pycache" "--format=gnu" "--sort=name" "--owner=root:0" "--group=root:0" "--mtime=1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC" "-C" "/Users/zzh/.emacs.d/elpa" "--" "ace-window-20200606.1259") tar: Failed to set default locale tar: Option --anchored is not supported Usage: List: tar -tf Extract: tar -xf Create: tar -cf [filenames...] Help: tar --help
• Program tar exited with non-zero status 1, see the elpa-mirror log buffer for details

[ericzzh]

tar version bsdtar 3.3.2 - libarchive 3.3.2 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.0.5 bz2lib/1.0.6

elpa-mirror version: ‘elpa-mirror-20210304.1432/’

emacs version: 27.1(9.0)

[redguardtoo]

d645c44 better algorithm to detect bsdtar (Chen Bin)

[ericzzh]

thanks, but the issue hasn't been cleared.

on my machine, tar --version shows: bsdtar 3.3.2 - libarchive 3.3.2 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.0.5 bz2lib/1.0.6

but when run in Emacs, the result is Result: ("tar: Failed to set default locale" "bsdtar 3.3.2 - libarchive 3.3.2 zlib/1.2.11 liblzm...")

[redguardtoo]

Show me the full log.

Besides, double check M-x eval-expression (elpamr--is-bsd-tar) returns t.

Try run one tar command from the log in shell. What's the output?

[ericzzh]

• Detected tar variant: GNU
• Converted to full path: "/Users/zzh/myelpa/" "ace-window-20200606.1259" -> "/Users/zzh/myelpa/ace-window-20200606.1259"
• Running tar: "tar" ("cf" "/Users/zzh/myelpa/ace-window-20200606.1259.tar" "--anchored" "--exclude=.elc" "--exclude=~" "--exclude=.so" "--exclude=.dylib" "--exclude=.dll" "--exclude=/bin" "--exclude=*/pycache" "--format=gnu" "--sort=name" "--owner=root:0" "--group=root:0" "--mtime=1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC" "-C" "/Users/zzh/.emacs.d/elpa" "--" "ace-window-20200606.1259") tar: Failed to set default locale tar: Option --anchored is not supported Usage: List: tar -tf Extract: tar -xf Create: tar -cf [filenames...] Help: tar --help
• Program tar exited with non-zero status 1, see the elpa-mirror log buffer for details

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M-x eval-expression (elpamr--is-bsd-tar) return nil

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I removed the ^ ahead of the regex, and it worked.

the reason is the following message shows ahead of the version result in Emacs's run "tar: Failed to set default locale"

but didn't show in the terminal run.

[redguardtoo]

What's the output of tar --version?

[ericzzh]

thanks, but the issue hasn't been cleared.

on my machine, tar --version shows: bsdtar 3.3.2 - libarchive 3.3.2 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.0.5 bz2lib/1.0.6

but when run in Emacs, the result is Result: ("tar: Failed to set default locale" "bsdtar 3.3.2 - libarchive 3.3.2 zlib/1.2.11 liblzm...")

as the last comment tar --version on my terminal shows bsdtar 3.3.2 - libarchive 3.3.2 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.0.5 bz2lib/1.0.6

but under the Emacs the additional message tar: Failed to set default locale shows before the normal result. The message was concated as "tar: Failed to set default locale bsdtar 3.3.2 - libarchive 3.3.2 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.0.5 bz2lib/1.0.6" which prevented the bsd tar regex check from passed.

[redguardtoo]

macOS? Have you tried to fix locale first? see https://blog.remibergsma.com/2012/07/10/setting-locales-correctly-on-mac-osx-terminal-application/

Anyway, I added more logic to detect bsd tar, 475f726 fixed bsd tar detection (Chen Bin)

[ericzzh]

worked! thanks very much! closed.