Right, just checked and I am still using gnutar on my Mac. Going back to
bsdtar is not an alternative because it will cause the initial problem for
everyone. If you can fix this on your end (or ignore it), it would be best,
I think.
Cheers,
Gonzo
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Kenneth Olwing via RT <
bug-HTTP-XSCookies@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
Show quoted text> Queue: HTTP-XSCookies
> Ticket <URL:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122558 >
>
> A bit of a 'me too' on this using a GNU tar 1.13 (from GnuWin32, appears
> to be no later version ported at the moment) on Windows complains about:
>
> C:\WS\ken1\gnuwin32\bin\tar.exe: Header contains "\200\000\000\000O\022@Q"
> where octal uid_t value expected
>
> It doesn't seem to be fatal. Other observations are that I've seen no
> other cpan dists causing this, a win port of bsdtar works fine, as well as
> the Perl 'ptar'.
>
> ken1
>
> On Sat Jul 22 03:43:53 2017, gonzalo.diethelm@gmail.com wrote:
> > Thanks for the report. Installed GNU tar on my mac and uploaded v13 to
> > CPAN.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gonzo
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Dan Book via RT <
> > bug-HTTP-XSCookies@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Fri Jul 21 13:55:36 2017: Request 122558 was acted upon.
> > > Transaction: Ticket created by DBOOK
> > > Queue: HTTP-XSCookies
> > > Subject: Garbage warnings when extracting with GNU tar
> > > Broken in: (no value)
> > > Severity: (no value)
> > > Owner: Nobody
> > > Requestors: DBOOK@cpan.org
> > > Status: new
> > > Ticket <URL:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122558 >
> > >
> > >
> > > The tarball contains extended headers that cause warnings when
> > > extracting
> > > on linux. I believe this is usually caused by using BSD tar rather
> > > than GNU
> > > tar when packaging on a Mac.
> > >
> > >
https://perlbot.pl/raw/1ljm85
> > >
>
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Gonzalo Diethelm
gonzalo.diethelm@gmail.com
