In article <1116267104.4288e2607e006@imp2-q.free.fr>,
Vincent  <10.50@free.fr> wrote:
>Selon Martijn van Buul <martijnb@atlas.ipv6.stack.nl>:
>
>> It occurred to me that Martti Kuparinen wrote in
>> gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > Any ideas what this is...
>> [...]
>> > pax: Trying to read GNU tar archive with extensions off
>> > pax: Trying to read GNU tar archive with extensions off
>>
>> No, but I'm seeing it too (-current, about a week old). It's preventing
>> me from updating firefox..
>
>For the new mozilla (1.7.8), I get that :
>
>pax: Trying to read GNU tar archive with extensions off
>pax: GNU Long File found in posix ustar archive.
>pax:  has an unknown file type, skipping
>pax: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
>pax: GNU Long File found in posix ustar archive.
>pax:  has an unknown file type, skipping
>pax: Invalid header, starting valid header search.
>pax: GNU Long File found in posix ustar archive.
>pax:  has an unknown file type, skipping
>pax: Invalid header, starting valid header search.

So invoking pax as tar instead. Invoking pax turns off gnu tar extensions.

christos