Re: [Bug-tar] Re: dereferencing broken since 1.24?

[gene heskett]

On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 04:26:11 pm Nathan Stratton Treadway did 
opine:

> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:48:03 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 01/05/11 08:09, gene heskett wrote:
> > > Test cases have been submitted, but no fix progress has been
> > > noted, and this bug has been out of the refrigerator long enough to
> > > develop an odor in this amanda users camp.
> > 
> > I assume we're talking about a bug in Amanda here?
> > I don't recall test cases being submitted to bug-tar.
> > 
> > Where is the Amanda bug report?
> 
> I believe that Gene is remembering the discussion of the
> "--one-file-system / --listed-incremental" bug discussed on this list
> in November 2010.  Here's the test case submitted to this list by the
> Amanda maintainer on that issue:
> 
>   http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg03017.html
>   "incremental backups and --one-file-system (version 1.25)"
> 
> (According to that thread, you [Paul] pushed a fix for the bug on Nov
> 22, but obviously that was after tar 1.25 was released.)
> 
> 
> 
> Note that there was also a discussion here on bug-tar back in October
> 2010 more directly related to the symlink issue mentioned in
> this current thread, e.g. starting with this message:
>   http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg02855.html
>   "Bug with files which have hardlinks"
> 
> However, as far as I remember that discussion didn't including anything
> specific to Amanda.
> 
Maybe I miss-remembered as both were contemporary to each other 
discussions.  The point that bothers me a little since I'd prefer my 
distros packaging system handled the updates, is that if the patch we 
amanda users need was pushed on Nov 22, 2010, and 6 weeks later it is still 
simmering in the release queue while we sit and wait, doesn't seem quite 
right.  1.24 broke some stuff, so 1.25 was pushed right out into the cloud 
of smoke from the 1.24 release, seems to me 1.26 with that patch should 
have been right on its heels, not still sitting on the back burner 6 weeks 
later.

Granted, it is not a zero day exploit of yet another hole in an M$ product 
like they get hung on their coat rack weekly it seems, but to us it's as 
important, or more so since the majority of us don't allow any more M$ on 
the premises than we can help.

Thanks Nathan, I'll go back to lurking & playing the amanda canary now. 

Have a Happy, healthy and prosperous 2011 everyone.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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