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Aditya Ramani
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ContainerizationArchive internally used a `FileArchiveWriterDelegate` type that defined callback methods which were handed to `archive_write_open2` from libarchive ``` int archive_write_open2(struct archive *, void *, archive_open_callback *, archive_write_callback *, archive_close_callback *, archive_free_callback *); ``` Turns out those methods were at the very least partly broken, when used alongside gzip compression. Utilities like gnutar and gunzip couldn't entirely process the archives produced by them, leading to errors like ``` ➜ gtar -tvzf rootfs.tar.gz ... drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 2026-03-07 11:24 sbin/ -rwxr-xr-x 0/0 122451504 2026-03-07 11:24 sbin/vminitd -rwxr-xr-x 0/0 121138856 2026-03-07 11:24 sbin/vmexec gzip: (stdin): trailing garbage ignored .. gtar: Child returned status 2 gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now ``` libarchive provides alternate APIs, `archive_write_open_filename` and `archive_write_open_fd` where these callbacks are defined within the library. Lets use those instead and let the library handle this / future edge cases (in this particular case it was adding some padding at the end of the gzipped compressed file)