[PATCH setup 4/4] Silently ignore 'x' and 'g' type tar extended headers

[Jon TURNEY]

On 10/03/2015 14:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 10 14:01, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> On 06/03/2015 06:08, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>> Jon TURNEY writes:
>>>> It seems that base-files has an 'x' extended header for each file, apparently to
>>>> store the mtime.
>>>
>>> That's a result of me having built that file on openSUSE and openSUSE's
>>> decision to default to POSIX format instead of GNU.
>>
>> Hmm... maybe I should drop this patch, if the correct thing to do is to
>> build base-files with tar --format=gnu?
>
> If your patch allows to unpack a POSIX tar archive correctly, without
> generating a warning... why would you like to drop it?

POSIX tar archive are (potentially) not unpacked strictly correctly in 
both cases, as they contain extra information that setup does not interpret.

All this patch changes is if we warn about that loss of information, or 
silently drop it.