On 27.02.19 10:09, Jan Ehrhardt wrote:
Thomas J. Hruska in gmane.comp.encryption.openssl.user (Tue, 26 Feb 2019
23:07:53 -0700):
On 2/26/2019 10:05 PM, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Unlike previous releases, this tar-gzipped file contains a 52 byte file
called 'pax_global_header'. The contents of the file contain a single
line of text:
52 comment=50eaac9f3337667259de725451f201e784599687
my extracted tarball does not contain this file. This seems to be a bug of the tar command which was fixed in 1.14.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/18/5
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111909182607985&w=2
HTH,
Matthias
Okay. Certain versions of 7-Zip seem to be affected. Just a FYI in
case anyone else brings it up on the list.
I ran into this using 7-Zip 18.05 (x64) on Windows, which is a fairly
recent version.
Thanks for the Updates about 7-Zip. But IMHO it is not really an issue, just a little 'manufacturing byproduct'.
As Linus wrote on the LKML mailing list: this file can safely be ignored/removed. Alternatively, you
can view it as a feature, because this file actually contains useful information: It's the id of the commit
from whose tree the tar file was created:
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/50eaac9f3337667259de725451f201e784599687
If it really disturbs you, you might want to get in touch with the 7-Zip Developers on their SourceForge Forum.
https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/search/?q=pax_global_header
Regards,
Matthias
