Greg Troxel <[email protected]> writes: > This is about a system with netbsd-8 built with sources updated on > 2020-02-14. > > I updated pkgsrc, and several sphinx packages are failing to build. > With help from adam@, I have narrowed it down to bad extraction from the > upstream tarball.
>From on and offlist comments, the consensus is that our pax does not understand newer format headers that are appearing, and hance pax-as-tar (NetBSD <= 8) does not either. Thus, packages like this need to use gtar or tar-with-libarchive, found in NetBSD >=9. Moving to tech-pkg to talk about how best to do this.
