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. The package is /usr/pkgsrc/textproc/py-sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml which was recently updated to 1.1.4. The 1.1.3 tarball looks fine with NetBSD's /bin/tar but the 1.1.4 throws lots of: tar: File extended headers posix ustar archive. Extracting as plain files. Following files might be in the wrong directory or have wrong attributes. ---------- 1 root wheel 27 Dec 31 1969 ././@PaxHeader drwxr-xr-x 2 502 staff 0 Dec 31 1969 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-1.1.4/sphinxcontrib/serializinghtml/locales/zh_TW tar: File extended headers posix ustar archive. Extracting as plain files. Following files might be in the wrong directory or have wrong attributes. ---------- 1 root wheel 28 Dec 31 1969 ././@PaxHeader drwxr-xr-x 2 502 staff 0 Dec 31 1969 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-1.1.4/sphinxcontrib/serializinghtml/locales/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES tar: File extended headers posix ustar archive. Extracting as plain files. Following files might be in the wrong directory or have wrong attributes. ---------- 1 root wheel 156 Dec 31 1969 ././@PaxHeader -rw-r--r-- 1 502 staff 755 Dec 31 1969 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-1.1.4/sphinxcontrib/serializinghtml/locales/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/sphinxco tar: File extended headers posix ustar archive. Extracting as plain files. Following files might be in the wrong directory or have wrong attributes. ---------- 1 root wheel 156 Dec 31 1969 ././@PaxHeader -rw-r--r-- 1 502 staff 1007 Dec 31 1969 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-1.1.4/sphinxcontrib/serializinghtml/locales/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/sphinxco and there is indeed a "sphinxco" file when unpacked. Using gtar to extract results in an OK build. So I think something is wrong with the tar on netbsd-8, and I'm not sure what we should be doing. The files can be grabbed from: https://pypi.org/project/sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml/#history https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/cd/cc/fd7d17cfae18e5a92564bb899bc05e13260d7a633f3cffdaad4e5f3ce46a/sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-1.1.3.tar.gz https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ac/86/021876a9dd4eac9dae0b1d454d848acbd56d5574d350d0f835043b5ac2cd/sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-1.1.4.tar.gz (There are similar problems with a few other sphinxcontrib-foo packages, and I'm guessing theya are the same thing.)
