[PATCH setup 4/4] Silently ignore 'x' and 'g' type tar extended headers
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Mar 10 14:23:00 GMT 2015
On Mar 10 14:01, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> 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?
If your patch allows to unpack a POSIX tar archive correctly, without
generating a warning... why would you like to drop it?
Corinna
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