Hi Hendrik,
Hendrik Grewe schrieb:
If one tries to append a file to an existing .tar file through
tar --append --file defective.tar fileToAdd.xxx
tar may return exit code 0 and terminate without error though the
fileToAdd.xxx is not added to the .tar file. However the tarfile has
been changed in some kinde since md5sums of defective.tar befor the
non working call and after the call differ.
Something is broken here. If I add a fle (let's say "mkdvdiso.sh") to
the archive (only once), checking the result with "tar -tvf
defective.tar" reveals that
-rw------- postgres/postgres 8192 2014-11-12 15:57 global/pg_control
is missing in the tar file (compared to the original tar file). star
confirms this diagnostic. So GNU tar's append clearly removes a file,
which is obviously another bug.
Greetings
Markus Steinborn
