ROSA Linux Bugzilla – Bug 712
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'
Last modified: 2012-09-19 12:49:13 MSD
Description of problem: tar utility reports "tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'" when extracting the archive created on Ubuntu 12.10 LTS. How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create any archive (say a.tar.gz) on Ubuntu 12.10 LTS: $ echo "A" > any_file $ tar -cf a.tar any_file $ gzip a.tar 2. Go to ROSA Marathon and extract the archive: $ tar -xzf a.tar.gz
Could you please attach a problematic tar archive? I don't have Ubuntu near me to create one:)
Created attachment 521 [details] sample archive
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Sorry, just ignore previous comment/
This seems to be some old tar extension not supported by upstream GNU Tar; not sure why/how it is picked up by Ubuntu. This warning shouldn't break anything - all the archives will be unpacked successfully. But if you want to get rid of these messages, use 'bsdtar' instead. It still supports that extension.