On Sun, 11 May 2003 15:37:26 +0300 Kalle Kivimaa <kil...@iki.fi> wrote: > Currently tar without --keep-old-files silently overwrites existing files > with versions from the archive. With --keep-old-files existing files can > be retained but tar complains about each and every file. This can cause > grief in postinst scripts, for example. It would be very nice to include > a switch (say --dont-warn-about-existing-old-files) to avoid this.
It looks like this option now exists: --skip-old-files However I do not see the behavior you describe on previous (Wheezy) versions of tar: --keep-old-files was silent before Jessie; see bug#784362.
