Re: [Bug-tar] [tar-1.14] including a lot of nested directories

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

TAMUKI Shoichi <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
>   - Why are their files created by tar-1.13 binarily different?

Tar 1.14 contained some incompatibilities in creating old GNU archives
that were fixed in 1.15.1

>   - Is there any ideas what influence occurs caused by the difference?

The difference does not affect the functionality of tar. 

>   - tar-1.15.1 seems to work fine.  So, where are the revision parts
>     to make a backport patch for tar-1.14?

See

http://sv.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/tar/tar/src/create.c.diff?r1=1.85&r2=1.86&diff_format=u

Regards,
Sergey