Fix tar so it can extract git-generated tarballs, based on a suggestion

from Erik Frederiksen.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c b/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
index 3302d9392..1cbde9543 100644
--- a/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
+++ b/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
@@ -137,10 +137,6 @@ char get_header_tar(archive_handle_t *archive_handle)
         case '1':
                 file_header->mode |= S_IFREG;
                 break;
-        case 'x':
-        case 'g':
-                bb_error_msg_and_die("pax is not tar");
-                break;
         case '7':
                 /* Reserved for high performance files, treat as normal file */
         case 0:
@@ -188,8 +184,11 @@ char get_header_tar(archive_handle_t *archive_handle)
         case 'N':       /* Old GNU for names > 100 characters */
         case 'S':       /* Sparse file */
         case 'V':       /* Volume header */
-                bb_error_msg("Ignoring GNU extension type %c", tar.formated.typeflag);
 #endif
+        case 'g':       /* pax global header */
+        case 'x':       /* pax extended header */
+                bb_error_msg("Ignoring extension type %c", tar.formated.typeflag);
+                break;
         default:
                 bb_error_msg("Unknown typeflag: 0x%x", tar.formated.typeflag);
         }