Re: AW: Slightly funny tar ball for openssl 1.1.1c ?
beta $ gzip -dc ../src/openssl-1.1.1c.tar.gz | tar -xf - tar: pax_global_header: typeflag 'g' not recognized, converting to regular file beta $ Must be a gnu tar thing? Hi Dennis, it's not a bug, it's a feature. ;-) No seriously: it's the `git archive` command which is used to export the tree into a tarfile. It adds an extended header containing the commit hash of the commit which was exported. Older tar programs don't know how to deal with that header and are a bit confused about it. Yep. Old POSIX tar just coughed up a one line pax_global_header file : 52 comment=97ace46e11dba4c4c2b7cb67140b6ec152cfaaf4 We had a similar discussion after 1.1.1b was released, it started here https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/2019-February/009936.html see in particular reply https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/2019-February/009949.html and the links to the LKML which it contains https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/18/5 https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel=111909182607985=2 Perfectly harmless feature. Thank you for the detailed reply. Dennis
AW: Slightly funny tar ball for openssl 1.1.1c ?
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > I don't thing I have seen this before : > > beta $ gzip -dc ../src/openssl-1.1.1c.tar.gz | tar -xf - > tar: pax_global_header: typeflag 'g' not recognized, converting to > regular file > beta $ > > Must be a gnu tar thing? Hi Dennis, it's not a bug, it's a feature. ;-) No seriously: it's the `git archive` command which is used to export the tree into a tarfile. It adds an extended header containing the commit hash of the commit which was exported. Older tar programs don't know how to deal with that header and are a bit confused about it. We had a similar discussion after 1.1.1b was released, it started here https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/2019-February/009936.html see in particular reply https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/2019-February/009949.html and the links to the LKML which it contains https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/18/5 https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel=111909182607985=2 HTH, Matthias
