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authorDenis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2007-06-21 12:41:59 +0000
committerDenis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2007-06-21 12:41:59 +0000
commita80b4a0fa74e7a19881790943d4f58de0411fa58 (patch)
tree36b8576e2ab3c9794bebb370b9c6323138f3116f /archival/Config.in
parent9a337801521c9f11cbf6d2e8059f2f133e1afe75 (diff)
tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable
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diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in
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@@ -205,6 +205,15 @@ config FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY
the old GNU format; help to kill this old format by
repacking your ancient archives with the new format.
+config FEATURE_TAR_OLDSUN_COMPATIBILITY
+ bool "Enable untarring of tarballs with checksums produced by buggy Sun tar"
+ default N
+ depends on TAR
+ help
+ This option is required to unpack archives created by some old
+ version of Sun's tar (it was calculating checksum using signed arithmetic).
+ It is said to be fixed in newer Sun tar, but "old" tarballs still exist.
+
config FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS
bool "Enable support for some GNU tar extensions"
default y