Just a follow up, to link the OS tar to gnutar, will break other installs, since the options are different. Will open a bug report as suggested
> On 4 Oct 2025, at 9:30 am, Horst B Simon via macports-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > As mentioned previously by Bill Cole, the problem is with the High Sierra’s > bsdtar. I installed Macports gnutar and linked the OS tar to gnutar and > the install worked, since it is a OS tar issue, should I still open a ticket? > > > >> On 4 Oct 2025, at 8:54 am, Ryan Carsten Schmidt <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> On Oct 3, 2025, at 17:50, Bill Cole wrote: >>> >>> One solution appears to be to get the packager to change how they package >>> the CPAN archive, as in this case opened by Ryan for a MacPorts issue: >>> https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/issues/264. >> >> Please do report the bug to the developers of that software and ask them to >> repackage it without extended attributes. >> >> >
