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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 19481@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19481: package.el: support .tar archives featuring a pax_global_header entry
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:42:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87364i4us3.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfiihqcw.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:01:03 +0200")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I think this was fixed in a different way in 2016 by Noam:

[...]

> So tar-mode displays these headers like this:
>
>  Hrw-rw-rw-    root/root         52 pax_global_header
>  drwxrwxr-x    root/root          0 pax-test/
>  -rw-rw-r--    root/root          5 pax-test/foo
>
> Which isn't unreasonable...
>
> For reference, I've included a tar file that has one of these headers
> here.
>
> So is this still something that should be applied?  If I read Ivan's
> patch correctly, it will make tar-mode just ignore those pax headers,
> which seems a bit heavy-handed...

There was no response to this, so I'm closing this bug report.  If
there is more to be fixed in this area, please respond and we'll reopen
the bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-19 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-01 17:55 bug#19481: package.el: support .tar archives featuring a pax_global_header entry Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-01 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-01 18:49   ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-28 20:54     ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-31  8:41       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-31 11:05         ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-31 11:22           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-07 20:10             ` bug#19481: new tar-header-extractable-p, to use in tar-untar-buffer Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-07 20:26               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-23 11:30                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-25 20:53           ` bug#19481: package.el: support .tar archives featuring a pax_global_header entry Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-01-20 18:35             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-13  9:01               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-19 13:42                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2015-01-01 18:38 ` Dmitry Gutov

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