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.)
Nathan
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