Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar 1.28: tests 161 163 fail on !Linux

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 22:07:20 +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On both FreeBSD and OpenBSD, these tests in GNU tar 1.28 fail:
> 
>  161: remfiles08a.at:28  remove-files deleting two subdirs in -c/non-incr. 
> mode
>       create remove-files remfiles08 remfiles08a
>  163: remfiles08c.at:28  remove-files deleting two subdirs in -r mode
>       create append remove-files remfiles08 remfiles08c
> 
> According to an earlier message to bug-tar, they also fail on Solaris.
> 
> I've looked at test #161 and it does this:
> 
>   mkdir foo
>   mkdir bar
>   echo foo/foo_file > foo/foo_file
>   echo bar/bar_file > bar/bar_file
>   decho A
>   tar -cvf foo.tar --remove-files -C foo . -C ../bar .
>   decho B
>   find .

Do you happen to still have tar 1.27.1 available on these test systems? 
I am fairly certain that tar's behavior in these cases (i.e.
  tar -cvf foo.tar --remove-files -C foo . -C ../bar .
and
  tar -rvf foo.tar --remove-files -C foo . -C ../bar .
) hasn't changed between 1.27.1 and 1.28, but it would be interesting to
know for sure if those operations fail in 1.27.1, too.

(That is, the remfiles08* test cases were added in 1.28 as part of an
effort to have comprehensive coverage of all the various code paths
related to the --remove-files option... but I am guessing they are just
catching a bug that did already exist, unnoticed in 1.27.1.)


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