AW: Slightly funny tar ball for openssl 1.1.1c ?

[Dennis Clarke]

>> 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&m=111909182607985&w=2
> 

Perfectly harmless feature.  Thank you for the detailed reply.

Dennis