[PATCH setup 4/4] Silently ignore 'x' and 'g' type tar extended headers
Jon TURNEY
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue Mar 10 14:02:00 GMT 2015
On 06/03/2015 06:08, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Jon TURNEY writes:
>> It seems that base-files has an 'x' extended header for each file, apparently to
>> store the mtime.
>
> That's a result of me having built that file on openSUSE and openSUSE's
> decision to default to POSIX format instead of GNU.
Hmm... maybe I should drop this patch, if the correct thing to do is to
build base-files with tar --format=gnu?
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