Re: [Bug-tar] TAR creates hard links or duplicated files inside archive when using -T option

[Tim Kientzle]

On Nov 2, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Live user wrote:

> On 01/11/2012 20:33, Paul Eggert wrote:
> >
> > Could you give a complete recipe for reproducing the problem?
> >
> 
> On 02/11/2012 4:15, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> 
>> Try using the -n option as well.  Most people who have
>> problems with -T need to add -n.
> 
> I've tried with -n option as well, and the problem still persists. I'm 
> creating the following tar archive (I need the -T option because I think that 
> files must be added in a specific order, not necessarily alphabetical):

I'm curious:  Why do you think the order matters?


> --------------------------
> 
> address@hidden:~/test$ tar -n -cvf gameloft.tar -T gameloft.txt
> …

> shared/0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA7HM/imgiab7121.bin
>  …

> shared/0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA7HM/imgiab7121.bin

Did you really mean to add the above file twice?
There are a bunch of other files that also appear twice
in your file list.

> hrw-rw-r-- dorian/dorian          0 2012-10-23 07:44 
> shared/0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA7HM/imgiab7121.bin link 
> to shared/0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA7HM/imgiab7121.bin

The duplication above is what's causing this hardlink entry.
(A hardlink entry is just tar's way of avoiding storing a file
contents twice.)

Tim