Subject: Re: bug#19481: package.el: support .tar archives featuring a pax_global_header entry

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:27:29 +0200

> From: Ivan Shmakov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 17:55:46 +0000
> 
> 	As currently implemented, package.el signals an error trying to
> 	process a .tar archive which has a pax_global_header entry, –
> 	such as the archives produced with $ git archive --format=tar.
> 
> 	Please thus consider the patch MIMEd.
> 
> 	* lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-untar-buffer): Ignore
> 	archive entries with link type being 55.
> 	(package-tar-file-info): Consider the second file name in the
> 	archive if the first one has no directory component.
> 
> 	* lisp/tar-mode.el (tar-untar-buffer): Ignore archive entries
> 	with link type being 55 (pax global extended header.)

What about type 72?  (See tar-mode.el for the details.)