Re: cg-export incompatible with older versions of GNU tar

In message [ref] you wrote:

quoted

-> tar jxf foo.tar.bz2 
tar: pax_global_header: Unknown file type 'g', extracted as normal file
...

It is unclear if the tar actually extracts the archive or not, though.
Does it just complain with those warnings, or are they fatal errors?

In this case extraction went fine, except for the warning message.

I had other error reports from customers befroe, where unpacking  the
tarballs failed - instead of the origianl source tree just a bunch of
*.data  and  *.paxheader  were created; error messages in these cases
looked like this:

tar: pax_global_header: Unknown file type 'g', extracted as normal file
tar: ea1efd7f213469bcde030e00ac9f89ed16256869.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file
tar: a9cb6572db37b1260205ff3b931a8a29f8d5d0fd.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file
tar: 7cf505b98f5bceacbe4d4e5aca0c76beade1ba58.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file
tar: 01a2ae2195da20744b04d31a4cf701bc1ac43be0.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file
tar: d1cfe8f0c1806741d1723666db431331cb4ac74b.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file
tar: 6f78ecf8a87f103864dea6bdfa9b767bc606a96c.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file
tar: f6e986640b35d634574d14126402e09ef912d6f4.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file
tar: 5064e2fad29381384227a47404b1b9ef1dbf18cb.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file
tar: 29264b9d7d344b3908c8ebfea2d88b1319f18603.paxheader: Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file
...


[But this was with older versions of git / cogito, so I'm not sure if
this still applies.]

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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