Bug #56874 for CPANPLUS: pax_global_header extraction from tar confuses CPANPLUS?

Hello, While watching the smoker logs from my CPANTesters bots, I noticed this on my netbsd smoker... Apparently the top-level file "pax_global_header" gives CPANPLUS some indigestion and it ends up... executing the totally wrong Makefile.PL and generally gets nowhere... CPANPLUS v0.9003 with all the perls I have ( 5.6.1 to 5.12.0 ) exhibit the same problem, the netbsd VM has GNU tar... no idea ( how do I find the version? ) the netbsd is a 5.0.1-CURRENT 64bit install [MSG] Trying to get 'ftp://192.168.0.200/CPAN/authors/id/A/AL/ALLOLEX/Sculptor-Date-0.010.tar.gz' [MSG] Using cached file '/home/cpan/cpanp_conf/perl_5.8.4_default/.cpanplus/authors/id/A/AL/ALLOLEX/CHECKSUMS' on disk; ttl (3600s) is not exceeded [MSG] Checksum matches for 'Sculptor-Date-0.010.tar.gz' # Extracting with ->_untar_bin Running [/usr/bin/gzip -cdf /home/cpan/cpanp_conf/perl_5.8.4_default/.cpanplus/authors/id/A/AL/ALLOLEX/Sculptor-Date-0.010.tar.gz | /bin/tar -tf -]... pax_global_header Sculptor-Date Sculptor-Date/.gitignore Sculptor-Date/Build.PL Sculptor-Date/Changes Sculptor-Date/MANIFEST Sculptor-Date/README Sculptor-Date/lib Sculptor-Date/lib/Sculptor Sculptor-Date/lib/Sculptor/Date.pm Sculptor-Date/t Sculptor-Date/t/00-load.t Sculptor-Date/t/boilerplate.t Sculptor-Date/t/convert_from_future_date.t Sculptor-Date/t/convert_from_high_number.t Sculptor-Date/t/convert_from_low_number.t Sculptor-Date/t/convert_from_past_date.t Sculptor-Date/t/convert_to_date.t Sculptor-Date/t/convert_to_number.t Sculptor-Date/t/pod-coverage.t Sculptor-Date/t/pod.t Running [/usr/bin/gzip -cdf /home/cpan/cpanp_conf/perl_5.8.4_default/.cpanplus/authors/id/A/AL/ALLOLEX/Sculptor-Date-0.010.tar.gz | /bin/tar -xf -]... # Extraction succeeded [MSG] Extracted 'pax_global_header' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/.gitignore' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/Build.PL' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/Changes' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/MANIFEST' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/README' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/lib' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/lib/Sculptor' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/lib/Sculptor/Date.pm' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/t' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/t/00-load.t' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/t/boilerplate.t' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/t/convert_from_future_date.t' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/t/convert_from_high_number.t' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/t/convert_from_low_number.t' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/t/convert_from_past_date.t' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/t/convert_to_date.t' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/t/convert_to_number.t' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/t/pod-coverage.t' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor-Date/t/pod.t' [MSG] Extracted 'Sculptor::Date' to '/home/cpan/cpanp_conf/perl_5.8.4_default/.cpanplus/5.8.4/build' [MSG] CPANPLUS is prefering Build.PL [MSG] Loading YACSmoke database "/home/cpan/cpanp_conf/perl_5.8.4_default/.cpanplus/cpansmoke.dat" Running [/home/cpan/perls/perl_5.8.4_default/bin/perl /home/cpan/perls/perl_5.8.4_default/bin/cpanp-run-perl /home/cpan/cpanp_conf/perl_5.8.4_default/.cpanplus/5.8.4/build/Makefile.PL]... Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Warning: prerequisite Tree::AVL 0 not found. Writing Makefile for AI::Pathfinding::SMAstar ERROR from evaluation of /home/cpan/cpanp_conf/perl_5.8.4_default/.cpanplus/5.8.4/build/API-CPanel-0.03/Makefile.PL: Perl v5.8.8 required--this is only v5.8.4, stopped at ./Makefile.PL line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./Makefile.PL line 1. [ERROR] Could not run '/home/cpan/perls/perl_5.8.4_default/bin/perl Makefile.PL': Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Warning: prerequisite Tree::AVL 0 not found. Writing Makefile for AI::Pathfinding::SMAstar ... and CPANPLUS eventually blows up, refusing to test the dist ... -- ~Apocalypse