you need to specify --insecure to extract those files. It is dubious if
   --chroot should imply --insecure so I did not do it.


i don't think this is the correct answer.  the tarballs that are failing
to extract are netbsd sets.  afaik, those all have files that start with
"./" in them.  to me this implies that whatever tests you have added for
checking extraction has not changed location are broken in the precense
of the --chroot flag.

surely you aren't suggesting that sysinst needs to pass --insecure?


.mrg.