Re: [Bug-tar] Exclude options are ignored

[cjdl01]

Ah, I see...

if I move the -X to the position of the first argument, it seems to work now.

That is fantastic!

Please disregard, and thank you for the fix.





Quoting cjdl01 <address@hidden>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but for some time, the last  
> several revisions of tar have been ignoring the -X or the --exclude  
> options.
>
> This was mentioned in the debian bugs here:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831007
>
> It is also mentioned in the debian forums, but the thread was  
> hijacked by someone in need of some serious psychological counseling.
>
> But I couldn't find corollary in the bug-tar archives... so I wanted  
> to make sure it was on record.
>
> I don't know about others... but I still use tar extensively for my  
> system backups, on many systems.  The exclude option is critical to  
> keep from the backup choking on itself, and filling up hard drives...
>
> I've been looking, and cannot find an adequate work-around for this,  
> other than to pull older versions of GNU tar, and compile them from  
> source.
>
> Is this known?  Do you ever intend to fix this?
>
> Thanks.