displays bad regular file timestamps on entry to .bz2 file & preserves the errors on copy out

Andrew Borodin aborodin at vmail.ru
Sun Jun 14 12:48:11 UTC 2020


On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:50:49 -0400 Felix Miata wrote:
> It's only happened on this one so far that I can remember:
> <http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/68.6.0esr/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-68.6.0esr.tar.bz2>
> Others I've checked from mozilla.org are handled normally.
> 
> Tar has no such problem.
> 
> Is this a known issue?

Yes, it is. MC's tar implementation doesn't support extended headers:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2020-March/msg00001.html

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Andrew



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