On 11/01/2008, at 11:47 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Not that I'm aware of. gtar works but libarchive tar fails on
the file it created.
Yes, in 6.2. What about the report that it works in 6.3?
Indeed. Trying to create a tarball using a non-existent list of
files returns an error and generates a 0-byte tgz; as previously
shown, BSD tar in 6.3 treats that as an empty archive, which seems
reasonable, whereas gtar feeds it to gzip which generates an error:
20% tar cvzf test.tar.gz --files-from empty
tar: Couldn't open empty: No such file or directory
21% ls -l test.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 0 Jan 10 19:42 test.tar.gz
22% tar tvzf test.tar.gz
23% gtar tvzf test.tar.gz
gzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
gtar: Child returned status 1
gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Actually, that's slightly different to the problem, in that its
creating a 0 byte tar file (which was always OK)
However, the 'empty' file is fine in 6.3 as well
13:19 Fri 11-Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] tar czf test.tgz --files-from /dev/null
13:19 Fri 11-Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] tar tvzf test.tgz
13:19 Fri 11-Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] uname -msr
FreeBSD 6.3-RC2 i386
13:19 Fri 11-Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] ls -l test.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 sean sean 45 Jan 11 13:19 test.tgz
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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