From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-02-18T03:17:30+09:00
Subject: Re: question about tar in Ruby

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:44:33 +0900, Ghelani, Vidhi
<vidhi.ghelani@intel.com> wrote:
> I am trying to package a  .tar.gz   file using ruby. I have packaged a
> .tar file using the same ruby code and it works perfectly fine. However,
> when I use the same code for a .tar.gz file, it give me an error while
> trying to open it . It says that this is not a tar file. I know I need
> to change something in my ruby code.
> 
> There are a few things that I changed i.e. 1) the extension from .tar to
> .tar.gz
> 
> However there is a command at the end of the code which does
> 
>            Tar -cf   #.tar.gz file  # a folder which contains the
> install and license and everything to do with this file.
> 
> Now I know that I need to change the above code, since this is not a tar
> file. Does anyone know wot to do ??

Yes. Look at Archive::Tar::Minitar on RubyForge under the Ruwiki project.

-austin
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