Re: tar mode and package.el can't support bsdtar in mac OSX

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:04:47 -0700 (PDT)
> From: 陈云星 <chen.yack@gmail.com>
> Injection-Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:04:47 +0000
> 
> i create a tarball with bsdtar( the default tar tool in Mac osx) then open it 
> with emacs tar-mode.
> 
> but it can't be opened.
> 
> and i also found the package.el only support gnutar format of tar , not the 
> bsdtar.
> 
> can any method to  solve these problem ?

This should be sent to emacs-devel@gnu.org, as they seem to be bugs or
missing features.

Please also give details about how you used bsdtar to create a tarball
that Emacs couldn't open.