On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 08:10:06PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote: > I recently ran into a problem with busybox tar generating archives > where the size field is base-256 encoded for files larger than 8GB. > Apparently this is a GNU tar extension. > > Do we want to support this in pax? Below is an initial diff that > at least produces the correct results when listing the archive. I > have not yet verified that it gets extracted correctly. If there > is interest I will do some more testing.
It's likely we may encounter this, sooner or later, in ports. Either in source archives, or in data files for a game or something. It's also likely it's obscure enough that it won't be diagnosed correctly by the people running into that, so we may end up with another port requiring GNU tar as a dependency. I'd say that yes, at least supporting proper diagnostics for that would be a good idea.
