Re: tar 1.35: --delete creates tarfiles with duplicate file paths

[Ed Santiago]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 08:33:03AM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Hi Ed,
> 
> > The --delete flag in 1.35 can generate a tarball that is
> > unreadable by podman and possibly other tools using the
> > Go tar library:
> 
> Unfortunately I cannot reproduce it,
> 
> >     $ podman create --name a quay.io/libpod/testimage:20221018
> >     $ podman export a >/tmp/a.tar
> >     $ tar --delete -f /tmp/a.tar home/podman/pause
> 
> Can you send me the a.tar archive before and after delete.
> or put them somewhere so I can download them?

Curious! It's 100% reproducible on my end. I've attached ante
and post (before/after, but ASCII sortable) to:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2230127

...and added a comment describing the dups found with

    tar tf a.post.tar | sort | uniq -cd

Hope this helps,
Ed
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