From d9601db10d81584da0aa790d793befaeb1b8d2b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Connelly <140354451+myclevorname@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 18:41:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] libutil: Throw if `str("contents")` not found

This was broken in 7aa3e7e3a5281acf350eff0fe039656cd4986e2c (since 2.25).

(cherry picked from commit 242f3625675cc06069edfd0936ad6f42acb068a8)
---
 src/libutil/archive.cc | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libutil/archive.cc b/src/libutil/archive.cc
index b978ac4db..3d96df75e 100644
--- a/src/libutil/archive.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/archive.cc
@@ -187,8 +187,10 @@ static void parse(FileSystemObjectSink & sink, Source & source, const CanonPath
                 tag = getString();
             }
 
-            if (tag == "contents")
-                parseContents(crf, source);
+            if (tag != "contents")
+                throw badArchive("expected tag 'contents', got '%s'", tag);
+
+            parseContents(crf, source);
 
             expectTag(")");
         });