Posted by t6nis20 on September 12, 2013 at 1:48pm
I tried to download 3.7.4 and 3.6.0 prebuilt packages from http://openscholar.harvard.edu/download
But all the zip's included PaxHeader folder with duplicate files, maybe a virus? Or maybe something went wrong with prebuilt package creation?
This does not seem right to me or there is nothing to worry about?
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I noticed this too, but
I noticed this too, but wasn't sure what it was. I'm going to try deleting them - a quick bit of Googling leads me to suspect that they are artifacts of a packaging script, and may not be needed?
Probably nothing to worry about
Thanks for reporting this issue. It seems like an artifact, which you can simply delete with no consequences.
But, for further investigation...
When I go to the official download page, I see these releases:
7.x-3.8.1
7.x-3.8.0
7.x-3.7.4
7.x-3.6.0
7.x-3.6
7.x-3.5
Only 7.x-3.5 has a zip file, and when I downloaded and extracted it (using Mac OS X), I didn't see the PaxHeader folder... Will you help me to reproduce this?
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In the tar.gz
I just went to the download page http://openscholar.harvard.edu/download and downloaded the tarballs (via "Download" link for versions 3.6, 3.6.0, 3.7.4, 3.8.0, and 3.8.1.
Using 7-Zip on Windows 7, I expanded each .tar.gz archive to the .tar, and explored each. Every archive, at every level of the directory structure, has a PaxHeader directory, with a file for every file in the parent (i.e. a file foo.txt and /dir/sub1/foo.txt will have an entry /dir/sub1/Paxheader/foo.txt).
In the most recent release 3.8.1, that amounts to almost 1000 directories.
I have not tried to install these releases with/without the PaxHeader directories, so I'm not sure if they interfere. Last week, I did try to install 3.7.4 on my laptop (WAMP) and had no end of problems. When I downloaded 3.6.0 and deleted the PaxHeader directories, I was able to complete the installation process with the usual amount of timeouts and whatnot. That isn't a clean comparison, however - so YMMV.
I just downloaded the latest
I just downloaded the latest 3.8.1 package from http://openscholar.harvard.edu/download and the package is still full of those PaxHeader artifacts.
Removing those by hand would be a pain from every single folder in the installation.
I am using Windows 7 and extracted it with 7-zip.
Live Linux
I ran Ubuntu live from a cd and extracted the file. Then I copied it to a flash drive. The directory went from 15k flies to 8K.
It would be nice if this were available as a .zip.
Just for information
For all those who are facing the PaxHeader problem..
Use TotalCommander(for Windows) to unzip the archive.
There is also a tutorial how to unpack files with TotalCommander - http://www.ghisler.com/beginners.htm