If importing an OVA that has user/group names with spaces then the plain tar -tRvf command would print them without any quoting. Our simple strategy of splitting on spaces resulted in an "extra field" being parsed. This is an example from a real OVA (note "Domain Users" is the group name): $ tar --quoting-style=literal -tRvf protect_appliance.ova block 0: -rw-r--r-- eraautobuilds/Domain Users 33508 2021-11-04 17:48 PROTECT_Appliance.ovf Luckily this is fairly simple to fix. We don't care about the original user/group name, and using --numeric-owner causes tar to print the UID/GID instead: $ tar --quoting-style=literal --numeric-owner -tRvf protect_appliance.ova block 0: -rw-r--r-- 1074101/1049089 33508 2021-11-04 17:48 PROTECT_Appliance.ovf I also added --quoting-style=literal to deal with possible future cases where the filename contains spaces. Because we use nsplit ~max:8 these should now be handled correctly too, although I didn't test this. Reported-by: Jiří Sléžka Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2069768 --- input/OVA.ml | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/input/OVA.ml b/input/OVA.ml index 36bb4fd043..9e9c371285 100644 --- a/input/OVA.ml +++ b/input/OVA.ml @@ -394,7 +394,10 @@ let re_tar_message = PCRE.compile "\\*\\* [^*]+ \\*\\*$" let get_tar_offet_and_size tar filename = let cmd = - sprintf "LANG=C tar --no-auto-compress -tRvf %s" (Filename.quote tar) in + sprintf "LANG=C tar \ + --no-auto-compress --quoting-style=literal --numeric-owner \ + -tRvf %s" + (Filename.quote tar) in let lines = external_command cmd in let rec loop lines = match lines with