Steven Hartland wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John-Mark Gurney" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Is the file incorrect when extracted? or is this a mater of gtar >> throwing >> an error because of the tar format, and an option to bsdtar could be >> provided >> to change the output tar format? > > The file is correct when extracted but gtar is, as you say, throwing > an error because of the tar format. The exit error is the issue as in > a scripted environment, as we have, the error causes the failure of the > whole operation.
GNU tar is broken. POSIX specifically allows for vendor extensions (such as the SCHILY.* extensions which were introduced by star), and the correct way to handle them is by printing a warning message, ignoring the extension, and not treating it as an error. You can work around gtar's breakage by explicitly telling it to ignore these options via --pax-option="delete=SCHILY.*" . Colin Percival _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
