On Mar 10 14:01, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 06/03/2015 06:08, Achim Gratz wrote: > >Jon TURNEY writes: > >>It seems that base-files has an 'x' extended header for each file, > >>apparently to > >>store the mtime. > > > >That's a result of me having built that file on openSUSE and openSUSE's > >decision to default to POSIX format instead of GNU. > > Hmm... maybe I should drop this patch, if the correct thing to do is to > build base-files with tar --format=gnu?
If your patch allows to unpack a POSIX tar archive correctly, without generating a warning... why would you like to drop it? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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