[arch-general] libarchive - bsdtar producing weird archives?

[Allan McRae]

Michael Towers wrote:
> The result of a makepkg run produced what looked like a totally
> garbled package, when viewed in mc's virtual file system. That led me
> to investigate a bit, so I tried packing up a few directories with
> bsdtar and sometimes got similarly garbled results. However, unpacking
> worked completely normally, as also did viewing the archives in
> xarchiver or squeeze. If I use tar instead of bsdtar to do the
> packing, they appear normally in mc.
>
> Does anyone know what's going on here? Is it mc that is getting
> something wrong, or bsdtar?
>   

I'd be attributing this to mc given you can extract the files fine and 
other packages veiw the archive fine.

Allan