[arch-general] libarchive - bsdtar producing weird archives?

[Michael Towers]

The result of a makepkg run produced what looked like a totally
garbled package, when viewed in mc's virtual file system. That led me
to investigate a bit, so I tried packing up a few directories with
bsdtar and sometimes got similarly garbled results. However, unpacking
worked completely normally, as also did viewing the archives in
xarchiver or squeeze. If I use tar instead of bsdtar to do the
packing, they appear normally in mc.

Does anyone know what's going on here? Is it mc that is getting
something wrong, or bsdtar?

Re: [arch-general] libarchive - bsdtar producing weird archives?

[Allan McRae]

Michael Towers wrote:

The result of a makepkg run produced what looked like a totally
garbled package, when viewed in mc's virtual file system. That led me
to investigate a bit, so I tried packing up a few directories with
bsdtar and sometimes got similarly garbled results. However, unpacking
worked completely normally, as also did viewing the archives in
xarchiver or squeeze. If I use tar instead of bsdtar to do the
packing, they appear normally in mc.

Does anyone know what's going on here? Is it mc that is getting
something wrong, or bsdtar?
  


I'd be attributing this to mc given you can extract the files fine and 
other packages veiw the archive fine.


Allan

Re: [arch-general] libarchive - bsdtar producing weird archives?

[Jan de Groot]

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 13:55 +0200, Michael Towers wrote:
 The result of a makepkg run produced what looked like a totally
 garbled package, when viewed in mc's virtual file system. That led me
 to investigate a bit, so I tried packing up a few directories with
 bsdtar and sometimes got similarly garbled results. However, unpacking
 worked completely normally, as also did viewing the archives in
 xarchiver or squeeze. If I use tar instead of bsdtar to do the
 packing, they appear normally in mc.
 
 Does anyone know what's going on here? Is it mc that is getting
 something wrong, or bsdtar?

bsdtar adds some extended attributes to tar files. I think mc can't
handle such things.