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

[Samuli Suominen]

On 10/26/2010 10:21 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Have you tried the patch reported in
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-10/msg00047.html>?

It works again with that patch.   Thanks for pointing it out.


>> -------- 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
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