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tar and busybox



hi folks

Any archive produced by tar 1.13.92 ary not accessible with busybox.

Any versions before produced archives in a format called GNU. It only
uses a little subset of available types and moved the other information
into the mode field. This format is neither compatible with POSIX nor
with ustar.
The new tar dropped create support for this format and produces
something between OLDGNU (< tar 1.2 or such) and ustar.

busybox only provides limited support for this tar archives and simply
failes because of some discrepances.

Bastian

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