Glenn McGrath (bug1) isaway from my email till the 17th, but caught me on IRC.

He took a look into the recent reports of tar problems, and found an obvious
typo in last_patch91 from vodz which converted tar to use bb_getopt_ulflags.

diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index 06851e8..acc8d54 100644 (file)
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ int tar_main(int argc, char **argv)
        }
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_BZIP2
-       if(opt & TAR_OPT_GZIP) {
+       if(opt & TAR_OPT_BZIP2) {
                        get_header_ptr = get_header_tar_bz2;
        }
 #endif