On 12/01/16 11:36, Martin Matuska wrote:
>  I have found the cause. The recently introduced field checks are not
> compatible with archives created by Archive::Tar.
> To be true, Archive::Tar violates the ustar tar header specification.
> I will take a look how to solve this.

Great, thanks.  Somehow I doubt that getting Archive::Tar fixed upstream
is going to be particularly easy. Or quick.  Seems they've got open bugs
from more than a decade ago, including some marked Critical.

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Archive-Tar

Would it be an idea to change the EXTRACT_CMD to use ptar(1) (comes with
Archive::Tar) for perl modules, even if only temporarily?

        Cheers,

        Matthew



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