(I am not subscribed - please cc: me on replies) The new tar-1.29 fails with my command line that works well with tar-1.28:
gzip -cd /home/tmp/whatever.tgz | \ tar --extract --numeric-owner --preserve-permissions \ --no-overwrite-dir --overwrite --verbose -f - ./install I get the message from tar-1.29: tar: '--overwrite' cannot be used with '--no-overwrite-dir' What I expected: It will work and overwrite anything except already existing directories, and if the directory does not exist then it will go ahead and make it without complaining. What I got: Error message I have never seen before. If there is a better way to achieve what I was doing with 1.28 that works with 1.29, please let me know what it is. I carefully checked the NEWS and ChangeLog files and didn't see anything about the change that now forbids the combination I was using before.
