The following reply was made to PR bin/30132; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/30132: Something is wrong with tar(1) --chroot
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:26:07 -0400

 On May 4,  3:10pm, juan@xtrarom.org (juan@xtrarom.org) wrote:
 -- Subject: bin/30132: Something is wrong with tar(1) --chroot
 
 | >Number:         30132
 | >Category:       bin
 | >Synopsis:       Something is wrong with tar(1) --chroot
 | >Confidential:   no
 | >Severity:       serious
 | >Priority:       high
 | >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 | >State:          open
 | >Class:          sw-bug
 | >Submitter-Id:   net
 | >Arrival-Date:   Wed May 04 15:10:00 +0000 2005
 | >Originator:     juan@xtrarom.org
 | >Release:        NetBSD 3.99.3
 | >Organization:
 | >Environment:
 | System: NetBSD xenun 3.99.3 NetBSD 3.99.3 (XenU) #11: Tue May 3 15:42:35 CEST 2005 juan@Nocturno:/home/juan/build/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/XenU i386
 | Architecture: i386
 | Machine: i386
 | >Description:
 | 
 | 	tar --chroot doesn't work correctly with last changes:
 | 
 | [juan@Nocturno][~/FOOBAR]> sudo tar --chroot -zxehvpf xtar.tar.gz   
 | xtar
 | tar: Attempt to write file `/xtar' outside current working directory `/home/juan/FOOBAR' ignored
 | xtar/xtar.c
 | tar: Attempt to write file `/xtar' outside current working directory `/home/juan/FOOBAR' ignored
 | tar: Cannot resolve `xtar/xtar.c'
 | xtar/xtar.h
 | tar: Attempt to write file `/xtar' outside current working directory `/home/juan/FOOBAR' ignored
 | tar: Cannot resolve `xtar/xtar.h'
 | xtar/Makefile
 | tar: Attempt to write file `/xtar' outside current working directory `/home/juan/FOOBAR' ignored
 | tar: Cannot resolve `xtar/Makefile'
 | tar: ustar vol 1, 4 files, 20480 bytes read, 0 bytes written in 1 secs (20480 bytes/sec)
 | [juan@Nocturno][~/FOOBAR]>
 
 you need to specify --insecure to extract those files. It is dubious if
 --chroot should imply --insecure so I did not do it.
 
 christos