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Benjamin Marwell commented on MASSEMBLY-1032:
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The underlying issue is that commons-compress does not support that. But I
heard the new AIX tar can properly expand PAX/POSIX tar archives without
relying on GNU tar and/or the pax tool. So maybe this will be unneeded.
> should be able to create ustar archives (i.e. non-posix/non-GNU)
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> Key: MASSEMBLY-1032
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MASSEMBLY-1032
> Project: Maven Assembly Plugin
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: maven-archiver
> Reporter: Benjamin Marwell
> Priority: Major
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> Currently, the tar option will always create POSIX archives or GNU archives.
> However, not all implementations of tar can handle this:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?109437
> AIX 7.2 will unpack Directories named PaxHeaders.X, not sure about what
> happens with GNU tar archives.
> However, given that ustar is more universal until AIX 7.3.1 arrives, it would
> be a reasonable option to support ustar as well. Even after that AIX release,
> it might be a reasonable choice for other Unix-like systems, as the posix
> standard has not been adopted widely.
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