Re: [Bug-tar] -A/catenate/concatenate with -g/listed-incremental: stat no such file or directory

[Alex Efros]

Hi!

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 01:58:45PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> The attached patch should fix it.

Same error on 1.27.1 and 1.28:

misc.c: In function ‘safer_rmdir’:
misc.c:591:11: error: ‘res’ undeclared (first use in this function)
       if (res == 0)
           ^
misc.c:591:11: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each 
function it appears in
Makefile:1362: recipe for target 'misc.o' failed
make[2]: *** [misc.o] Error 1

> However, I wonder what's the use of concatenating incremental values
> together?  Do you have any practical application for that?

I create full.tar once per week, and then every day create incr.tar and
concatenate it to full.tar. The idea was to have fast backups and at same
time just one file for restore. Am I doing something wrong?

-- 
                        WBR, Alex.