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Re: cg-export incompatible with older versions of GNU tar

From
WDWolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date
Sep 22, 2005, 12:43 UTC
Message-ID
<20050922124338.246D535267B@atlas.denx.de>
In-Reply-To
<20050922120841.GH21019@pasky.or.cz>
In message <20050922120841.GH21019@pasky.or.cz> you wrote:
>
> > -> tar jxf foo.tar.bz2 
> > tar: pax_global_header: Unknown file type 'g', extracted as normal file
> > ...
> It is unclear if the tar actually extracts the archive or not, though.
> Does it just complain with those warnings, or are they fatal errors?
In this case extraction went fine, except for the warning message.

I had other error reports from customers befroe, where unpacking the tarballs failed - instead of the origianl source tree just a bunch of *.data and *.paxheader were created; error messages in these cases looked like this:

tar: pax_global_header: Unknown file type 'g', extracted as normal file tar: ea1efd7f213469bcde030e00ac9f89ed16256869.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file tar: a9cb6572db37b1260205ff3b931a8a29f8d5d0fd.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file tar: 7cf505b98f5bceacbe4d4e5aca0c76beade1ba58.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file tar: 01a2ae2195da20744b04d31a4cf701bc1ac43be0.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file tar: d1cfe8f0c1806741d1723666db431331cb4ac74b.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file tar: 6f78ecf8a87f103864dea6bdfa9b767bc606a96c.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file tar: f6e986640b35d634574d14126402e09ef912d6f4.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file tar: 5064e2fad29381384227a47404b1b9ef1dbf18cb.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file tar: 29264b9d7d344b3908c8ebfea2d88b1319f18603.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file ...

[But this was with older versions of git / cogito, so I'm not sure if this still applies.]

Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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