ar is failing to open opie ipks

[ccrandal]

I downloaded libpcap0.7.2 and keypebble just now and saw they were in Debain binary package 2.0 format.  From my Mac, I tried using `ar -x` to open the package so I could reformat as tgz.  However, I just end up with the following output:

ar: debian-binary/: No such file or directory
ar: data.tar.gz/: No such file or directory
ar: control.tar.gz/: No such file or directory

So, I tried to do the extract on my Z.  There, I ended up getting the error:

ar: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.9.5.0.14.so: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory

Are these just bad ipks or is there something wrong with my ar programs?  Why do we have 2 different formats for ipks?  Any reason ipkg hasn\'t been modified to handle both formats?

Thanks
Curt

[cane_cubo]

I had this problem too with ar on a Mac.  I ended up doing dearchiving on a linux server in the office -- on linux ar seems to work right.  So I suppose the version of ar on OSX needs to be updated or something.

[ccrandal]

I was hoping fink would have a version of ar available, but it doesn\'t look that way.  :cry:

I suppose this means there\'s something messed up with ar on my Z too, eh?

[Mickeyl]

IIRC there have been slight changes in the tar format recently. Don\'t ask me for details, I just read this on a list or a forum or somewhere. Oh and someone mentioned a --oldgnu switch or so.