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Re: [Bug-tar] -A/catenate/concatenate with -g/listed-incremental: stat n
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] -A/catenate/concatenate with -g/listed-incremental: stat no such file or directory |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Nov 2015 21:16:46 +0200 |
Hi Alex,
> Looks like this fix is incomplete - it works for removed directory, but
> not for renamed one (tested on 1.28 with your patch):
Indeed. Thanks for reporting. I pushed a fix.
> P.S. Also, I'm not sure is this will be considered a bug, but `tar t` for
> concatenated incremental archives show files which won't be unpacked
> (which was removed/renamed in concatenated incremental part).
Yes, of course. It's not a bug. There's no other way to list tar
archives (short of reading the entire content into the memory, applying
each incremental operation sequentionally and outputting the result at
the end, which is obviously inacceptable).
Regards,
Sergey