Re: [Bug-tar] Listed-incremental and old symlinks

[Peter Kronheimer]

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Peter Kronheimer <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Sorry to keep on at this.
>
> No problem:)
>
> > I am now using tar 1.15.91. The attached
> > script uses --listed-incremental in an attempt to recreate an exact
> > copy of an existing directory.
>
> The script works oK with the CVS version, even with `sleep 2'
> removed. Please give it a try.

Yes, I tried it yesterday, and can confirm that indeed it works. Looking 
at CVS, I think this problem was fixed three weeks ago: I think it was 
caused by the bug in incremen.c that was fixed in version 1.51 of that 
file, with log entry

        "(try_purge_directory): Initialize struct st".

Thank again.