[cmake-developers] [CMake 0011958]: libarchive still produces PAX tar archives which are unreadable on older versions of tar

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=11958 
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Reported By:                simonh
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   11958
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2011-03-10 06:42 EST
Last Modified:              2011-03-10 06:42 EST
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Summary:                    libarchive still produces PAX tar archives which are
unreadable on older versions of tar
Description: 
As per issue http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=11176, which I'd re-open if I
could, and as per my comment http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=11176#c21986,
the current libarchive will generate extended header keywords such as
"LIBARCHIVE.xattr.security.selinux" which cause some tar programs to error
rather than silently ignore (such as
http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/source/SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-26.fc7.src.rpm)

I know this is really a tar problem (shouldn't error), but it means I have to
patch CMake to use "ustar" instead of "pax".
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2011-03-10 06:42 simonh         New Issue                                    
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