[BusyBox] Changed behavior or bug in tar.

Thomas Lundquist lists at zelow.no
Sun Nov 18 08:08:43 UTC 2001


On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:57:44AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> 
> The easy fix is to just disable magic tests always, but its a bit of a
> worry that that some tar files a created without filling in such basic
> header fields.

bingo.

I use GNU tar but of some reason i had "o" as part of the 
create options of the mentioned add.bz2 file.

  -o, --old-archive, --portability   write a V7 format archive

so, now it works again.

thanks alot for the help


Thomas.





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