Re: [Bug-tar] tar -c <file> -f <file.tar> behavior change

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

[Apologies for not being able to answer your mail earlier.]

Andrew Haninger <address@hidden> wrote:

> Well, I applied the patch by hand, instead, and it compiled and when
> installed, it worked as expected.
> 
> However, I'd still be interested to know how I would have applied this
> if I knew what I was doing.

Probably some whitespace conversion (tab -> spaces, or vice versa)
occurred when you saved the patch. The option -l helps in this case:

  $ cd tar-1.15.1
  $ patch -p0 -l < patchfile
  patching file src/tar.c

Regards,
Sergey