Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #38860, comment 5
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Ticket #38860, comment 5
initial v1 1 1 Somehow my first version of this got lost somehow. If it finally shows up then I apologize for the duplication. 2 2 3 As a final follow-up to this, the initial upgrade attempt was indeed interrupted due to my /usr/bin/tar being a symlink to /usr/bin/gnutar instead of the default BSD version of tar. Apparently the install process uses a flag in tarthat isn't valid in gnutar, which caused the initial attempt to fail. I don't know if that helps resolve the underlying problem but hopefully that information helps.3 As a final follow-up to this, the initial upgrade attempt was indeed interrupted due to my /usr/bin/tar being a symlink to /usr/bin/gnutar instead of the default BSD version of tar. Apparently the install process uses a tar flag that isn't valid in gnutar, which caused the initial attempt to fail. I don't know if that helps resolve the underlying problem but hopefully that information helps. 4 4 5 5 In case you're wondering why I changed which tar I use it's because I work on a lot of Linux systems. When a tar file created by BSD tar is extracted on Linux a lot of unnecessary errors are displayed, e.g. http://superuser.com/questions/318809/linux-os-x-tar-incompatibility-tarballs-created-onos-x-give-errors-when-unt