upload-release fails on Windows machine with home directory starting with a number

[theozaurus]

Hi,

When running on Windows:

bosh2 -e <the env> upload-release <the release>

We get the error

Extracting release:
  Shelling out to tar:
    Running command: 'powershell tar --no-same-owner -xzf <the release> -C C:\Users\439\.bosh\tmp\bosh-release190507123', stdout: '', stderr: '/usr/bin/tar: C\:\\Users#9\\.bosh\tmp\bosh-release190507123: Cannot open: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
':
      exit status 1

Exit code 1

It looks like the Users\439 part is getting turned into Users#9. The number 43 in octal corresponds to '#' in ASCII so it looks like this is an escaping issue of some kind.

The expected behavior is to successfully extract the archive and upload the release.

Thanks,

Theo

[Fydon]

@theozaurus That error is because the folder containing tar.exe isn't in your PATH environment variable. Use BSD tar from bosh-agent, as the tar that comes with Git for Windows (usr\bin folder off the installation) requires building your own release of bosh with this pull request added to it.

[theozaurus]

Thanks for the hint @Fydon. I've installed BSD Tar and it now works. The error message really doesn't suggest that BSD Tar is required!

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