On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 12:12, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > Which version of tar do you have? > > This looks like a really old system and you can expect a long journey to > update it. Large amounts of patience, caffeine and man page reading will > be needed.
I would suggest downloading the ebuild for the previous version of tar, which was EAPI 5, and install that: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/app-arch/tar/tar-1.29-r3.ebuild?id=9c7c8cc9b55491825725e7edb8891695e655d2e6 Cheers, Arve
