Hi folks,
This morning I ran into an issue when trying to extract the official Go
binary tarball (go1.25.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz). It appears there is an
incompatibility between the archive format, which started with Go
1.25.3, and GNU tar version 1.35.
I am running Fedora Workstation 43 (also tested with Fedora 42 WSL with
the same result). My tar version is 1.35. All Go tarballs up to go1.25.2
work correctly.
When I attempt the standard extraction using GNU tar, the command fails:
(source tarball: https://go.dev/dl/go1.25.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz)
rm -rf /usr/local/go && tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.25.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz
The error message I receive is:
tar: Das sieht nicht wie ein „tar“-Archiv aus.
tar: Springe zum nächsten Kopfteil.
tar: Beende mit Fehlerstatus aufgrund vorheriger Fehler
The English translation is:
tar: This does not look like a "tar" archive.
tar: Skipping to next header.
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
However, I found a successful workaround. If I use the gunzip utility to
decompress the file and pipe the output to tar, the extraction works:
gunzip -c go1.25.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar -xzvf -
I also tested using bsdtar version 3.8.1, which works flawlessly.
This makes me think that the archive itself is not corrupt, but that the
built-in Gzip handling within GNU tar 1.35 is failing to process the
specific Gzip format used for these newer Go tarballs (I didn't .
Please let me know if you need any additional information from my side
to investigate this.
Best regards,
Johannes
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Johannes Kunde <[email protected]>
