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.
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| @@ -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 | |