On 07/06/2015 10:54 AM, Roman Donchenko wrote:
> Sparse files in tars are a GNU extension that libarchive will use if it
> detects holes in the input file, even when using the standard pax/paxr
> formats. Not all tar implementations can handle sparse files; in particular,
> the internal implementat
Sparse files in tars are a GNU extension that libarchive will use if it
detects holes in the input file, even when using the standard pax/paxr
formats. Not all tar implementations can handle sparse files; in particular,
the internal implementation dpkg uses to extract packages can't. To
maximize ar
