problem while moving HOME from FreeBSD to MacOS with bsdtar

I have had to move in my office from a FreeBSD in a VM to a Mac.
To not loose my HOME I created a tar archive on FreeBSD and restored it
with tar into the Mac (all details about versions see below). The tar
archive contains a lot of dirs and file (~30.000) and one dir is
guru/Mail where a mbox file guru/Mail/purism exists. It also exists a
plain file guru/mail (note: the dir is with capital M). This leads on
extract to the problem that guru/Mail is also created as a plain file,
not as a directory and afterwards guru/Mail/purism can't created in it.

Comments (apart of: don't use Mac)? Note also: Both system use bsdtar :-)

	matthias



FreeBSD:

$ uname -a
FreeBSD c720-r368166 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #23 r368166M: Thu Dec 17 13:12:37 CET 2020     guru@c720-r368166:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC  amd64

Mac:

$ uname -a
Darwin APITZM-1MBPOH 21.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Mon Aug 22 20:20:07 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.140.49~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8110 arm64

$ tar tzvf guru-vm-r368166-last.tar.gz | grep -i guru/Mail
drwx------  0 guru   wheel          0 27 Sep  2021 guru/Mail/
-rw-r--r--  0 guru   wheel       1013  8 Aug  2013 guru/mailKelpe.txt
-rw-r--r--  0 guru   wheel       1508 24 Aug  2017 guru/mails.txt
-rw-r--r--  0 guru   wheel       4016  9 Nov 12:36 guru/mail
-rw-------  0 guru   wheel    3043983 24 Sep  2021 guru/Mail/purism

$ tar xzf guru-vm-r368166-last.tar.gz
guru/Mail/purism: Could not stat guru/Mail/purism
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

$ ls -ld guru/Mail guru/mail
-rw-r--r--  1 apitzm  xxxx\Domain Users  4016  9 Nov 12:36 guru/Mail
-rw-r--r--  1 apitzm  xxxx\Domain Users  4016  9 Nov 12:36 guru/mail

$ tar tzvf guru-vm-r368166-last.tar.gz | cat -n | grep -i guru/mail
   227	drwx------  0 guru   wheel          0 27 Sep  2021 guru/Mail/
   496	-rw-r--r--  0 guru   wheel       1013  8 Aug  2013 guru/mailKelpe.txt
   497	-rw-r--r--  0 guru   wheel       1508 24 Aug  2017 guru/mails.txt
  1065	-rw-r--r--  0 guru   wheel       4016  9 Nov 12:36 guru/mail
  3583	-rw-------  0 guru   wheel    3043983 24 Sep  2021 guru/Mail/purism

FreeBSD:

$ tar --version
bsdtar 3.4.3 - libarchive 3.4.3 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.2.5 bz2lib/1.0.8 libzstd/1.4.5

Mac:

$ tar --version
bsdtar 3.5.1 - libarchive 3.5.1 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.0.5 bz2lib/1.0.8



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