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bug#19481: package.el: support .tar archives featuring a pax_global_head
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#19481: package.el: support .tar archives featuring a pax_global_header entry |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:27:29 +0200 |
> From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 17:55:46 +0000
>
> As currently implemented, package.el signals an error trying to
> process a .tar archive which has a pax_global_header entry, –
> such as the archives produced with $ git archive --format=tar.
>
> Please thus consider the patch MIMEd.
>
> * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-untar-buffer): Ignore
> archive entries with link type being 55.
> (package-tar-file-info): Consider the second file name in the
> archive if the first one has no directory component.
>
> * lisp/tar-mode.el (tar-untar-buffer): Ignore archive entries
> with link type being 55 (pax global extended header.)
What about type 72? (See tar-mode.el for the details.)
bug#19481: package.el: support .tar archives featuring a pax_global_header entry, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/01/01