[BusyBox] Changed behavior or bug in tar.

[Glenn McGrath]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 16:08:35 +0100
"Thomas Lundquist" <lists at zelow.no> wrote:

> 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
> 

Arghh ok, it would be nice if i could workout a way to test for this,
ill see what i can work out.


Glenn