Updated tar to 1.25, still seems to be some issues with it though. More testing is needed on this one.

app-arch/tar/tar-1.25.bep

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+DESCRIPTION="tar saves and restores files from a tape or disk archive." 
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/" 
+SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.25.tar.bz2"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="6e497f861c77bbba2f7da4e10270995b"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="broken"
+DEPEND=""
+BUILD {
+	cd tar-1.25
+	./configure --prefix=/boot/common \
+		LDFLAGS="-lnetwork" \
+		FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1		
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd tar-1.25
+	make install
+}
+
+TEST {
+	cd tar-1.24
+	make check
+}
+
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
+COPYRIGHT="1990-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."