Bug#291194: dpkg should handle tar posix format
On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 1:38 PM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> Scott James Remnant, le mer 19 jan 2005 11:35:51 +0000, a dit :
>> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 12:02 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>
>>> So as to have proper file name encoding, I'm used to have
>>> TAR_OPTIONS=--format=posix
>>> But then built packages don't work:
>>>
>> I think this is a dup of the above bug. If that patch doesn't work,
>> please unmerge these bugs.
>
> It doesn't. Doing some gdb showed me that the first tar entry has
> h.Type 'x', which is unknown. Here is the printing of the first
> header: (gdb) p *(TarHeader *)block
> $10 = {Name = "./PaxHeaders.28427/.", '\0' <repeats 79 times>,
GNU tar indeed does not understand `x' (or any other lower-case letter) as a
valid file type. See the thread starting at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/04/msg01376.html for a fuller
discussion.
Regards,
Adam
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