docs/52419: Downloaded handbook errors on un-tar-ing

[Malcolm Kay]

>Number:         52419
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Downloaded handbook errors on un-tar-ing
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 18 22:30:16 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     malcolm kay
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
at home
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD beta.home 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Sun Feb 23
        01:18:55 CST 2003                                       =20
        malcolm at beta.home:/usr/src/sys/compile/SOUND i386                =
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>Description:
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    Downloaded Handbook archive contains '..' in some paths; rejected by =
tar                                                   =20
>How-To-Repeat:
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    # ftp \=20
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book=
=2Ehtml.tar.gz                                =20
    # tar zxf book.html.tar.gz                                           =
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>Fix:
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    Work around: Download immages individually from Web version using bro=
wser.                                                 =20
    Fix: Re-archive without '..' in path names.


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