why not patch the command line to use tar-compatible flags instead? 
--no-same-owner is the default for our tar, and --directory is just the 
same as -C

-- 
  Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.

On 13 January 2026 08:33:44 Giovanni Bechis <giovanni@paclan.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> the following diff fixes the "puppet module" command, Puppet is using
> Gnu only tar options.
> Ok ? Comments ?
>  Cheers
>    Giovanni
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/sysutils/ruby-puppet/8/Makefile,v
> diff -u -p -r1.9 Makefile
> --- Makefile 22 Sep 2025 12:35:15 -0000 1.9
> +++ Makefile 13 Jan 2026 08:23:16 -0000
> @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
> PORTROACH= limit:^8
>
> VERSION= 8.10.0
> -REVISION= 3
> +REVISION= 4
>
> -RUN_DEPENDS+= converters/ruby-multi_json,${MODRUBY_FLAVOR}>=1.13,<2 \
> +RUN_DEPENDS+= archivers/gtar \
> + converters/ruby-multi_json,${MODRUBY_FLAVOR}>=1.13,<2 \
>  devel/ruby-concurrent-ruby,${MODRUBY_FLAVOR}>=1,<2 \
>  devel/ruby-deep_merge,${MODRUBY_FLAVOR}>=1,<2 \
>  devel/ruby-fast_gettext,${MODRUBY_FLAVOR}>=2.1,<4 \
> Index: patches/patch-lib_puppet_module_tool_tar_gnu_rb
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: patches/patch-lib_puppet_module_tool_tar_gnu_rb
> diff -N patches/patch-lib_puppet_module_tool_tar_gnu_rb
> --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
> +++ patches/patch-lib_puppet_module_tool_tar_gnu_rb 13 Jan 2026 08:23:16 -0000
> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> +Index: lib/puppet/module_tool/tar/gnu.rb
> +--- lib/puppet/module_tool/tar/gnu.rb.orig
> ++++ lib/puppet/module_tool/tar/gnu.rb
> +@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ class Puppet::ModuleTool::Tar::Gnu
> +     destdir = File.expand_path(destdir)
> +     safe_destdir = Shellwords.shellescape(destdir)
> +
> +-    Puppet::Util::Execution.execute("gzip -dc #{safe_sourcefile} | tar 
> --extract --no-same-owner --directory #{safe_destdir} --file -")
> ++    Puppet::Util::Execution.execute("gzip -dc #{safe_sourcefile} | gtar 
> --extract --no-same-owner --directory #{safe_destdir} --file -")
> +     Puppet::Util::Execution.execute(['find', destdir, '-type', 'd', 
> '-exec', 'chmod', '755', '{}', '+'])
> +     Puppet::Util::Execution.execute(['find', destdir, '-type', 'f', 
> '-exec', 'chmod', 'u+rw,g+r,a-st', '{}', '+'])
> +     Puppet::Util::Execution.execute(['chown', '-R', owner, destdir])
> +@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@ class Puppet::ModuleTool::Tar::Gnu
> +     safe_sourcedir = Shellwords.shellescape(sourcedir)
> +     safe_destfile = Shellwords.shellescape(File.basename(destfile))
> +
> +-    Puppet::Util::Execution.execute("tar cf - #{safe_sourcedir} | gzip -c 
> > #{safe_destfile}")
> ++    Puppet::Util::Execution.execute("gtar cf - #{safe_sourcedir} | gzip 
> -c > #{safe_destfile}")
> +   end
> + end
> Index: patches/patch-lib_puppet_module_tool_tar_rb
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: patches/patch-lib_puppet_module_tool_tar_rb
> diff -N patches/patch-lib_puppet_module_tool_tar_rb
> --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
> +++ patches/patch-lib_puppet_module_tool_tar_rb 13 Jan 2026 08:23:16 -0000
> @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
> +Index: lib/puppet/module_tool/tar.rb
> +--- lib/puppet/module_tool/tar.rb.orig
> ++++ lib/puppet/module_tool/tar.rb
> +@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ module Puppet::ModuleTool::Tar
> +   def self.instance
> +     if Puppet.features.minitar? && Puppet.features.zlib?
> +       Mini.new
> +-    elsif Puppet::Util.which('tar') && !Puppet::Util::Platform.windows?
> ++    elsif Puppet::Util.which('gtar') && !Puppet::Util::Platform.windows?
> +       Gnu.new
> +     else
> +       # TRANSLATORS "tar" is a program name and should not be translated