Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH 0/5] Several changes in multi-volume archive handling

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Friday, November 02, 2012 02:45:40 PM Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> could you please consider following series of patches:
> 
> [PATCH 1/5] Make the multi-volume code more generic
> - low prio -> just avoid code duplication
> 
> [PATCH 2/5] New test for extraction of multi-volume archives
> - prepare test for the following commit
> 
> [PATCH 3/5] Fix for extracting multi-volume archives
> - this is is about: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866071
> 
> [PATCH 4/5] Make the multi-volume extracting more verbose
> - inform user about badly set volume (not just silently skip it).  This occurs
>   in a case that user adds e.g. empty file as second and subsequent volume.
> 
> [PATCH 5/5] Make the multi-volume handling more friendly
> - low prio -> (a) just mention the '?' shortcut to help user with handling
>   multi-volume archives in interactive mode and (b) improve the long
>   message.

Ping on this http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-11/msg00008.html

Pavel