CentOS 5.6 Update Version Of Tar

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I am running CentOS 5.6 and for some ungodly reason, the version of tar is from 2004, and not compatible with the node package manager (NPM). How in the world can I update it? Is there an additional yum repository I can add, so I can simply execute yum update tar.

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The CentOS6 package fails dependencies on 5.6, so, you probably will need to build it yourself, either nicely packaged or not. I don't seen an updated "tar" package up at Dag or Karan.

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I checked http://nl.mirror.eurid.eu/centos/5.6/updates/x86_64/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2 and the mirror looks OK.

To check I manually pulled down the file:

wget http://nl.mirror.eurid.eu/centos/5.6/updates/x86_64/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2

Run sha1sum on it:

$ sha1sum primary.sqlite.bz2 
0c3f80f4063c9e64c000c5e6f1e5bda0a0623822  primary.sqlite.bz2

$ bzip2 -d primary.sqlite.bz2
$ sha1sum primary.sqlite 
adda574a8d795705b80d6c2003947c1ae2797f5f  primary.sqlite

and checked these values against the values listed in http://nl.mirror.eurid.eu/centos/5.6/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml

<data type="primary_db"><location href="repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2"/>
  <checksum type="sha">0c3f80f4063c9e64c000c5e6f1e5bda0a0623822</checksum>
  <timestamp>1307575563</timestamp>
  <open-checksum type="sha">adda574a8d795705b80d6c2003947c1ae2797f5f</open-checksum>
  <database_version>10</database_version>
</data>

Try a yum clean all and check that the files in /var/cache/yum/... in the same manner.

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