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| author | Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2007-06-21 16:41:59 +0400 |
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| committer | Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2007-06-21 16:41:59 +0400 |
| commit | a80b4a0fa74e7a19881790943d4f58de0411fa58 (patch) | |
| tree | 36b8576e2ab3c9794bebb370b9c6323138f3116f /archival/Config.in | |
| parent | 9a337801521c9f11cbf6d2e8059f2f133e1afe75 (diff) | |
tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable
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| -rw-r--r-- | archival/Config.in | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in index 661c71ccf..49070da06 100644 --- a/archival/Config.in +++ b/archival/Config.in @@ -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 |