Re: [Bug-tar] tar has PROGRAM ERROR:
On 10/11/13 05:47 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote: On openSuse, w/tar-1.26-17.1.x86_64, I tried using the --portability flag to get only older headers.. Instead I got: tar cf out --portability P-1.1.4/ tar: --old-archive: (PROGRAM ERROR) Option should have been recognized!? Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. tar bug or platform (opensuse) bug? It works for me with tar-1.27 on Archlinux. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[Bug-tar] Documentation for warning (3.9) not accurate
Chapter 3.9 (http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC48) say: Warning messages are output to the standard error and they do not affect the exit code of|tar| command. However the warning%s: file changed as we read it in fact only appears with a changed (non-zero) exit code. According to multiple discussions (for example: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2007-08/msg00042.html) this is the intended behaviour, so the documentation should be fixed? I would like it even better if--warning=no-file-changed could be used to disable this non-zero exit code.
