Re: package build failures on netbsd-8 using nbtar, pax, bsdtar

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On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 08:10:04PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> This is about a system with netbsd-8 built with sources updated on
> 2020-02-14.
> 
> I updated pkgsrc, and several sphinx packages are failing to build.
> With help from adam@, I have narrowed it down to bad extraction from the
> upstream tarball.
> 
> The package is /usr/pkgsrc/textproc/py-sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml
> which was recently updated to 1.1.4.  The 1.1.3 tarball looks fine with
> NetBSD's /bin/tar but the 1.1.4 throws lots of:
> 
> tar: File extended headers posix ustar archive. Extracting as plain files. Following files might be in the wrong directory or have wrong attributes.
> ----------  1 root     wheel         27 Dec 31  1969 ././@PaxHeader
> drwxr-xr-x  2 502      staff          0 Dec 31  1969 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-1.1.4/sphinxcontrib/serializinghtml/locales/zh_TW
> tar: File extended headers posix ustar archive. Extracting as plain files. Following files might be in the wrong directory or have wrong attributes.
> ----------  1 root     wheel         28 Dec 31  1969 ././@PaxHeader
> drwxr-xr-x  2 502      staff          0 Dec 31  1969 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-1.1.4/sphinxcontrib/serializinghtml/locales/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES
> tar: File extended headers posix ustar archive. Extracting as plain files. Following files might be in the wrong directory or have wrong attributes.
> ----------  1 root     wheel        156 Dec 31  1969 ././@PaxHeader
> -rw-r--r--  1 502      staff        755 Dec 31  1969 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-1.1.4/sphinxcontrib/serializinghtml/locales/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/sphinxco
> tar: File extended headers posix ustar archive. Extracting as plain files. Following files might be in the wrong directory or have wrong attributes.
> ----------  1 root     wheel        156 Dec 31  1969 ././@PaxHeader
> -rw-r--r--  1 502      staff       1007 Dec 31  1969 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-1.1.4/sphinxcontrib/serializinghtml/locales/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/sphinxco

Have you seen the dates? It pre-dates the epoq? Is it supported? Because
this seems to imply that the date is negative (probably -1)...
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