Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.29 bug: tar ignores --exclude option

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

Testing that deep attachment link suggests that it does not work 
reliably. Please find attached for your convenience the tar archive with 
the test fixture demonstrating the --exclude-from failure in 1.29.

Kind regards,
Ben.

On 24/05/16 23:32, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> [Sorry, I am not a subscriber to the mailing list, so please cc: me in
> replies]
>
> I have reported via Debian BTS the silent failure of -X / --exclude-from
> in tar 1.29, including a test fixture, instructions, and output for 1.28
> and 1.29. My findings are quite similar to the report on this mailing
> list for --exclude. I found that excludes working for 1.28 are ignored
> in 1.29.
>
> Bug#824902: tar: -X / --exclude-from silent failure
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=824902
>
> Attached test fixture tar file:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=824902;att=1;filename=tar-exclude-from-file-silent-failure.tar.gz;msg=5
>
>
> Here is the example:
>
> The file "includes" contains:
>
> base
>
> The file "excludes" contains:
>
> dir-2
> dir-glob-*
>
> With tar 1.28-2.2, the patterns listed in "excludes" are applied:
>
> $ tar zcvvfTX - includes excludes > /dev/null
> drwxrwx--- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:39 base/
> drwxrwx--- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-1/
> -rw-rw---- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-1/file-1
>
> With tar 1.29-1, nothing is excluded:
>
> $ tar zcvvfTX - includes excludes > /dev/null
> drwxrwx--- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:39 base/
> drwxrwx--- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-glob-2/
> -rw-rw---- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-glob-2/file-glob-2
> drwxrwx--- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-glob-1/
> -rw-rw---- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-glob-1/file-glob-1
> drwxrwx--- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-2/
> -rw-rw---- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-2/file-2
> drwxrwx--- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-1/
> -rw-rw---- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-1/file-1
>
> So it is appears that it is not just patterns but all excludes that are
> broken. Adding a prefix "base/" to each line of the file "excludes" does
> not change anything.
>
> Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies <address@hidden>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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