tar issue: header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sat Jun 17 07:19:18 UTC 2006


Hi,

I am facing the error below during untar'ring tarball on FC5:

# tar xzvf xxxx.tar.gz 
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'
...

This error doesn't occur on FC4 and breaks building an rpm that has
built flawlessly on FC < 5.

Any ideas what is causing this? Googling seems to indicate the SCHILY.*
errors to be related to "TAR-SCHILY extensions".

How to work around it? 

Why is FC < 5 not affected?

Ralf





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