[PATCH] unbreak uncomressed files with tar, modutils, and man

[ibid.ag at gmail.com]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:25:32PM -0800, ibid.ag at gmail.com wrote:
> This afternoon I updated a small system to git HEAD, rebooted, 
> and discovered that modprobe no longer worked.
> Specifically, it spat out an error like this:
> modprobe: no gzip/bzip2/xz magic
> grep helped me track this down to archival/libarchive/open_transformer.c.
> 
> I'm using uncompressed modules, so I need modprobe to simply proceed on
> when an uncompressed file is encountered.
> This was the most obvious way to do that; in the process, I happened to find
> and fix similar issues in man and tar.
> 
> I'm not sure how far back this is an issue; it looks like it may be from 
> this commit:
> 
> commit 7c47b560a8fc97956dd8132bd7f1863d83c19866
> Author: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
> Date:   Fri Jan 10 14:06:57 2014 +0100
> 
>     libarchive: open_zipped() does not need to check extensions for e.g. gzip
 

Did this get lost in the mail?

 
Thanks,
Isaac Dunham