tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.provenance' aborts a set -e deploy halfway

Fix

Create the archive without macOS metadata and strip AppleDouble files:

COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 tar czf - --no-xattrs --exclude='._*' --exclude='.next/cache' .next app lib \
 | ssh server 'cd /srv/app && rm -rf .stage && mkdir .stage && tar xzf - -C .stage 2>/dev/null; \
   find .stage -name "._*" -delete; test -f .stage/.next/BUILD_ID && <swap dirs>'

Gate the swap on a positive check (test -f .stage/.next/BUILD_ID) instead of tar's exit status, and stage into a fresh directory so a failure leaves production untouched.

Symptom

A deploy piped a macOS-made tarball to a Linux server: tar czf - .next app lib | ssh server 'set -e; ...; tar xzf - -C .next.new; mv ...'. The server printed hundreds of lines of

tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.provenance'

and the remote script exited 1. Because of set -e the swap stopped halfway: the new .next was in place but the old app/lib were partly moved, and AppleDouble files such as .next/node_modules/._sharp-<hash> appeared next to real files.

Cause

macOS bsdtar stores extended attributes (here com.apple.provenance) as pax headers and may add ._* AppleDouble entries. GNU tar warns about unknown keywords and can return a non-zero status, which set -e treats as fatal.

Verify

After the change, the next deploys swapped cleanly, the app restarted online, and image routes that depended on the .next/node_modules symlink returned 200. If a half-swap already happened: inspect the dirs, find .next app lib -name '._*' -delete, re-link, restart.

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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.provenance' aborts a set -e deploy halfway

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