Bug 712 – tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'

Bug 712 - tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'

Summary:

tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Product:	Desktop Bugs
Classification:	ROSA Desktop
Component:	Main Packages
Version:	Marathon
Platform:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	ROSA Linux Bugs
QA Contact:	ROSA Linux Bugs

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Reported:	2012-08-28 19:33 MSD by Andrey Ponomarenko
Modified:	2012-09-19 12:49 MSD (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

See Also:
RPM Package:	tar-1.26-5-rosa.lts2012.0.i586.rpm
ISO-related:
Bad POT generating:
Upstream:

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Description Andrey Ponomarenko 2012-08-28 19:33:14 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

Comment 1 Denis Silakov 2012-08-30 17:31:12 MSD

Could you please attach a problematic tar archive? I don't have Ubuntu near me to create one:)

Comment 2 Andrey Ponomarenko 2012-08-30 18:01:55 MSD

Created attachment 521 [details]
sample archive

Comment 3 Dmitry Mikhirev 2012-09-05 12:27:18 MSD

vim-minimal does not support multibyte characters. Use vim-enhanced instead.

Comment 4 Dmitry Mikhirev 2012-09-05 12:28:23 MSD

Sorry, just ignore previous comment/

Comment 5 Denis Silakov 2012-09-14 15:30:09 MSD

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.