[Bug-tar] Re: tar-1.24 fails to extract specified directories from kdebase-4.5.2.tar.bz2

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/26/10 11:58, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> I've tried to mail this to address@hidden, I even registered to the ML,
> but it's not accepting my mail.

There's a delay, as the mailing list is human-reviewed.

Have you tried the patch reported in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-10/msg00047.html>?

> I hope you can forward it, or something.

I am forwarding it now, as part of this message.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: tar-1.24 fails to extract specified directories from
> kdebase-4.5.2.tar.bz2
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:46:14 +0300
> From: Samuli Suominen <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> tar-1.24 fails to extract specified directories from
> kdebase-4.5.2.tar.bz2 [1] as reported downstream [2].
> 
> tar-1.23 success:
> 
> unique tmp # tar -xpf /usr/portage/distfiles/kdebase-4.5.2.tar.bz2
> --transform="s|apps/||" kdebase-4.5.2/apps/konsole
> unique tmp #
> 
> tar-1.24 failure with (or without, doesn't make difference):
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/patch/?id=acb77ac5bd4bf9248070c9c512525eee8258aebd
> 
> unique tmp # tar -xpf /usr/portage/distfiles/kdebase-4.5.2.tar.bz2
> --transform="s|apps/||" kdebase-4.5.2/apps/konsole
> tar: kdebase-4.5.2/apps/konsole: Not found in archive
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> 
> [1] http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/distfiles/kdebase-4.5.2.tar.bz2
> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342785