Re: [Bug-tar] Issue with GNU Tar and HP-UX LVM v2.2 filesystems

[Michael White]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the notification.
I'd be glad to try and test.  The problem is I don't have a clue how to go 
about trying to patch and compile.
I pull binaries down from a HPUX repository. If someone has the time to explain 
the steps and any compile switches I could try.
Or I have a HPUX 11i v3 server you could access.  But I'd have get 
authorization first.

The porting site only has tar 1.26 source and was put therer by a  Francois 
Pinard <address@hidden whom I've included on this email.
Francois if you are seeing this email would you be able to generate new HPUX 
11iv3 binaries with this patch (patch is a separate email, if you'll replay I 
be glad to sent it to you.

Thank you all for helping,

Paul, Joerg, Nathan


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Eggert [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 11:00 PM
To: Michael White
Cc: 'Joerg Schilling'; 'address@hidden'; 'address@hidden'
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Issue with GNU Tar and HP-UX LVM v2.2 filesystems

On 10/01/2012 08:10 AM, Michael White wrote:
> What do I need to do to request a fix so GNU tar incremental will work for 
> HPUX?

You already did it, by sending email to bug-tar.  :-)

I just now pushed a patch and if you like you can try it out from the git 
repository <http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=tar>.
At some point it should find its way into a new release.  Unfortunately it's 
not a trivial fix.  I have not tested it under HP-UX (I don't have access to 
any such machine) so any testing you can do would be appreciated.

Here are the patch details:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=df7b55a8f6354e30e8da62eec7f706df033d0c81

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