Package: tar Version: 1.29-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
the -X / --exclude-from option silently fails in 1-29-1. Consider this example (see attached tar file): The file "includes" contains: base The file "excludes" contains: dir-2 dir-glob-* With tar 1.28-2.2, the patterns listed in "excludes" are applied: $ tar zcvvfTX - includes excludes > /dev/null drwxrwx--- ben/ben 0 2016-05-21 14:39 base/ drwxrwx--- ben/ben 0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-1/ -rw-rw---- ben/ben 0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-1/file-1 With tar 1.29-1, nothing is excluded: $ tar zcvvfTX - includes excludes > /dev/null drwxrwx--- ben/ben 0 2016-05-21 14:39 base/ drwxrwx--- ben/ben 0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-glob-2/ -rw-rw---- ben/ben 0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-glob-2/file-glob-2 drwxrwx--- ben/ben 0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-glob-1/ -rw-rw---- ben/ben 0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-glob-1/file-glob-1 drwxrwx--- ben/ben 0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-2/ -rw-rw---- ben/ben 0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-2/file-2 drwxrwx--- ben/ben 0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-1/ -rw-rw---- ben/ben 0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-1/file-1 I note that this option no longer appears in the 1.29-1 man page, but I could not find anything in the upstream changelogs: 1.29: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8545 1.28 https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8037 Kind regards, Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.52-3 ii libc6 2.22-9 ii libselinux1 2.5-3 tar recommends no packages. Versions of packages tar suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 ii ncompress 4.2.4.4-15 pn tar-scripts <none> ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 -- no debconf information
tar-exclude-from-file-silent-failure.tar.gz
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