[Bug 225639] FreeBSD's tar produces .tgz files that can not be read by other tar implementations (e.g windows 7-zip)

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225639

Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> ---
Agreed.  Tar could just be smarter about this -- simply don't pad when writing
to stdout.  It's probably still reasonable / harmless to pad when writing to
block devices.

Tar in FreeBSD is mostly a thin shim around libarchive.  Perhaps the right
thing to do is to file a bug in upstream libarchive and follow it here.

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