tar2sqfs (part of https://github.com/topics/tar2sqfs) rejects tarballs made with git archive with the message invalid tar header checksum! tar2sqfs recomputes the tarball's checksum to verify it. Its checksum implementation agrees with GNU tar, which contains a comment that states Fill in the checksum field. It's formatted differently from the other fields: it has [6] digits, a null, then a space ... Correcting this allows tar2sqfs to correctly process the tarballs made by git archive. Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> --- archive-tar.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/archive-tar.c b/archive-tar.c index 3e53aac1e6..f9a157bfd1 100644 --- a/archive-tar.c +++ b/archive-tar.c @@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ static void prepare_header(struct archiver_args *args, memcpy(header->magic, "ustar", 6); memcpy(header->version, "00", 2); - xsnprintf(header->chksum, sizeof(header->chksum), "%07o", ustar_header_chksum(header)); + xsnprintf(header->chksum, sizeof(header->chksum), "%06o", ustar_header_chksum(header)); + header->chksum[6] = '\0'; + header->chksum[7] = ' '; } static void write_extended_header(struct archiver_args *args, -- 2.22.0.dirty
