Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#2777 closed task (fixed)

tar-1.25

Reported by: bdubbs@… Owned by: Matthew Burgess
Priority: normal Milestone: 6.8
Component: Book Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description (last modified by bdubbs@…)

New version.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.25.tar.bz2

Noteworthy changes in this release:

  • Fix extraction of empty directories with the -C option in effect.
  • Fix extraction of device nodes.
  • Make sure name matching occurs before eventual name transformation.

Tar 1.24 changed the ordering of name matching and name transformation so that the former saw already transformed file names. This made it impossible to match file names in certain cases. It is fixed now.

  • Fix the behavior of tar -x --overwrite on hosts lacking O_NOFOLLOW.
  • Improve the testsuite.
  • Alternative decompression programs.

Change History (5)

comment:1 by Gilles Espinasse, 13 years ago

1.24 is broken even the test suite pass ok.

That command fail where every other tar version were ok tar -x -C /tmp -f /tmp/ipcop.tar tar: usr/lib/engines: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory tar: usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory tar: usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory tar: usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwertz: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory tar: usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/fgGIod: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory tar: usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/azerty: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory ... tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

comment:2 by bdubbs@…, 13 years ago

I saw a similar report on the tar mailing list. It is not, strictly speaking, an LFS problem, but it is an upstream problem. We may want to just hold off a while ot see if this is addressed.

I've been following the bug-tar mailing list for about six months now. For a program that has been around about 30 years, it seems to have lots of problems.

comment:3 by bdubbs@…, 13 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Summary: tar-1.24tar-1.25

comment:4 by Matthew Burgess, 13 years ago

Owner: changed from lfs-book@… to Matthew Burgess
Status: newassigned

comment:5 by Matthew Burgess, 13 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Fixed in r9411.

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