pax in linux tarball

[Glenn L. McGrath]

On Wed, 17 May 2006 16:15:12 +0200
Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Checked out the trunk and busybox tar gives me an error message:
> 
> tar: pax is not tar
> 
> However, today have been busy so I havent been able to track it down.
> It looks like the linux tar archive is a pax archive
> (tar.formated.typeflag is obviously set to 'g'). I guess gnu tar handles
> pax format as well, while busybox tar does not. (looks like bsd tar
> handles it too)

If you look at the start of the tar file with a binary viewer you can
its clearly pax.

I unpacked it and recreated the tarball with GNU tar and it didnt
default to pax.

Could pax be the default tarball format that git uses ?


Glenn