diff -purN libarchive-2.8.3.orig/tar/read.c libarchive-2.8.3/tar/read.c
--- libarchive-2.8.3.orig/tar/read.c	2010-01-17 01:21:04.000000000 +0100
+++ libarchive-2.8.3/tar/read.c	2010-06-03 09:27:24.000000000 +0200
@@ -308,7 +308,8 @@ read_archive(struct bsdtar *bsdtar, char
 				if (!bsdtar->verbose)
 					safe_fprintf(stderr, "%s",
 					    archive_entry_pathname(entry));
-				safe_fprintf(stderr, ": %s",
+				safe_fprintf(stderr, ": errno: %d; %s",
+				    archive_errno(a),
 				    archive_error_string(a));
 				if (!bsdtar->verbose)
 					fprintf(stderr, "\n");