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bug#19481: package.el: support .tar archives featuring a pax_global_head
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#19481: package.el: support .tar archives featuring a pax_global_header entry |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:42:04 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I think this was fixed in a different way in 2016 by Noam:
[...]
> So tar-mode displays these headers like this:
>
> Hrw-rw-rw- root/root 52 pax_global_header
> drwxrwxr-x root/root 0 pax-test/
> -rw-rw-r-- root/root 5 pax-test/foo
>
> Which isn't unreasonable...
>
> For reference, I've included a tar file that has one of these headers
> here.
>
> So is this still something that should be applied? If I read Ivan's
> patch correctly, it will make tar-mode just ignore those pax headers,
> which seems a bit heavy-handed...
There was no response to this, so I'm closing this bug report. If
there is more to be fixed in this area, please respond and we'll reopen
the bug report.
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