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Add note about sparse files #344
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The `tar` implementation used doesn't unpack sparse files correctly, so add a note about this ( we were using bsdtar to generate the archive, and a random file (usr/lib/locale/locale-archive) was for some reason sparse, so it wasn't unpacked currently).
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Is this still an issue given that we use bsdtar to unpack now? |
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tarimplementation used doesn't unpack sparse files correctly, so add a note about this ( we were using bsdtar to generate the archive, and a random file (usr/lib/locale/locale-archive) was for some reason sparse, so it wasn't unpacked currently).