On Sun, Mar 29, 2026 at 10:49 AM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Huh. What is your platform exactly? Maybe more to the point, > what is the tar program you're using?
FreeBSD tar 3.8.2. > > Seems like it already stepped over 000000010000000000000002 earlier? > > Could it be a table-of-contents order dependency bug or something like > > that? > > If you look at the TAP script, you'll see that it tries to randomize > the order of the entries in the tar file (see sub generate_archive). > So if that's the problem, it shouldn't reproduce 100%, and also we > should be seeing lots of freckles on the buildfarm. We're not, so > there must be something off-the-beaten-track about your test > environment. Right, I see now. There is something different about 000000010000000000000002 though: it doesn't seem to have a normal (non-PAX, non-GNU) TOC entry, unlike000000010000000000000001. Trying to figure out why...
