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From: Martin Matuska <mm@freebsd.org>
To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: tar: Error opening archive: Unrecognized archive format
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  Hi Matthew,

could you please be more specific? Can you tell me the port names or  
give links to the messages?

Thanks,
mm

Quoting Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>:

> There seem to be a lot of pkg fallout mails all with the same error:
>
>   tar: Error opening archive: Unrecognized archive format
>
> This is affecting package building on head -- mostly perl modules from
> what I'm seeing, but that may just be sampling bias.
>
> I suspect that something has broken with the latest MFV of libarchive
> code in r309299
>
>         Cheers,
>         Matthew
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Martin Matuska
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