On 2021-05-10, Roger Marsh <roger.ma...@btinternet.com> wrote: > After upgrading to OpenBSD 6.9 'ValueError: ZIP does not support timestamps > before 1980' exceptions started occuring when installing python packages by: > > 'python3.8 setup.py install --user' where the package was built by: > > 'python3.8 setup.py sdist --formats gztar' and extracted from the archive on > OpenBSD 6.9 by: > > 'tar xzf *.tar.gz'.
Python-created tars started storing timestamps in nanoseconds via pax extension headers which tar in base doesn't handle. You'll need to use another program to extract them for now; gtar works.
