[PATCH v2 1/1] import-tars: read overlong names from pax extended header

From: Pedro Alvarez Piedehierro Importing gcc tarballs[1] with import-tars script (in contrib) fails when hitting a pax extended header. Make sure we always read the extended attributes from the pax entries, and store the 'path' value if found to be used in the next ustar entry. T

[PATCH v2 0/1] import-tars: read overlong names from pax extended header

From: Pedro Alvarez Piedehierro Hello! In this version I've trimmed and improved the commit message as suggested. Regarding the error handling, as Jeff mentioned, could be improved in general in the entire script. But I guess I could do it if needed to get this patch approved. Thank

[PATCH] Add initial support for pax extended attributes

From: Pedro Alvarez Piedehierro Sometimes the tar files will contain pax extended attributes to deal with cases where the information needed doesn't fit in a standard ustar entry. One of these cases is when the path is larger than 100 characters. A pax entry will appear containing two sta