On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 13:55 +0200, Michael Towers wrote: > The result of a makepkg run produced what looked like a totally > garbled package, when viewed in mc's virtual file system. That led me > to investigate a bit, so I tried packing up a few directories with > bsdtar and sometimes got similarly garbled results. However, unpacking > worked completely normally, as also did viewing the archives in > xarchiver or squeeze. If I use tar instead of bsdtar to do the > packing, they appear normally in mc. > > Does anyone know what's going on here? Is it mc that is getting > something wrong, or bsdtar? bsdtar adds some extended attributes to tar files. I think mc can't handle such things.
