Re: tar and busybox

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:44:38PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> 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.

Ok, fine, but what is the plan to solve this problem ? 

Any timeline for fixing busybox tar ? Is the patch posted here enough ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther