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Subject: Re: (bsd)tar is broken on 6.1
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Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:
> # tar cf /dev/null X11R6.old
> # archive_write_pax_header: 'x' header failed?!  This can't happen.

This seems to work fine here:
[noackjr@optimator:/usr] $ uname -rm
6.1-RELEASE i386
[noackjr@optimator:/usr] $ tar --version
bsdtar 1.02.023, libarchive 1.02.026
Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Tim Kientzle
[noackjr@optimator:/usr] $ tar cf /dev/null X11R6
[noackjr@optimator:/usr] $

-Jonathan