MSYS2-packages: tar hangs on packages

For about two days tar hangs on MSYS2 and MINGW packages which contain binaries on Windows 10 1809.

For testing I ran:

$ tar -tf ${package-name}*.pkg.tar.xz

In the Task Manager I noticed xz.exe does not seem to be doing anything, but when interrupting tar with CTRL+C, it starts utilizing 50% of the CPU with no end in sight.

Yesterday I thought I was able to circumvent the problem by disabling Windows Defender, but that’s not working anymore, so I might as well be remembering it falsely.

I need this functionality for making a standalone distribution of my package. Do you have any suggestion on how to handle this?

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  • Created 5 years ago
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OK, turning off Windows Defender’s real-time protection seems to allow the xv | tar pipeline to complete, but makes no difference to the direct tar xJf call…