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Re: [PATCH setup 4/4] Silently ignore 'x' and 'g' type tar extended headers

From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:01:45 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 4/4] Silently ignore 'x' and 'g' type tar extended headers
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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 tobuild base-files with tar --format=gnu?

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [PATCH setup 4/4] Silently ignore 'x' and 'g' type tar extended headers
  - From: Corinna Vinschen
- Re: [PATCH setup 4/4] Silently ignore 'x' and 'g' type tar extended headers
  - From: Achim Gratz

References:
- [PATCH setup 0/4] Setup logging fixes
  - From: Jon TURNEY
- [PATCH setup 4/4] Silently ignore 'x' and 'g' type tar extended headers
  - From: Jon TURNEY
- Re: [PATCH setup 4/4] Silently ignore 'x' and 'g' type tar extended headers
  - From: Achim Gratz

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