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-X option no longer seems to work correctly


From: Alex Zbyslaw
Subject: -X option no longer seems to work correctly
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:47:59 +0100

Between tar-1.12 and tar-1.13 -X option no longer works the same.
Cannot get version in tar-1.13 to behave in any way I understand.
Below commands and truncated output to demonstrate.

{prompt}% cat /tmp/EXCLUDE
active_1.1/index-old

{prompt}% gtar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.12

Copyright (C) 1988, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

%{prompt} gtar -cvz -f active_1.1.tzr -X /tmp/EXCLUDE active_1.1
active_1.1/
active_1.1/spool/
active_1.1/spool/Invoice.4455
[...]
active_1.1/lockout/
active_1.1/lockout/HINSTALL_LOCK
[...]
active_1.1/Templates/
active_1.1/Templates/template/
active_1.1/Templates/template/descriptors.pm
[...]
active_1.1/index-new/
active_1.1/index-new/INDEX_OK
active_1.1/index/                         <-- No index-old
active_1.1/index/Directory/
[...]

### Note that directories go from index-new to index with no index-old

{prompt}% gtar-1.13 --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13

Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

{prompt}% gtar-1.13 -cvz -f active_1.1.tzr -X /tmp/EXCLUDE active_1.1
active_1.1/
active_1.1/spool/
active_1.1/spool/Invoice.4455
[...]
active_1.1/lockout/
active_1.1/lockout/HINSTALL_LOCK
[...]
active_1.1/Templates/
active_1.1/Templates/template/
active_1.1/Templates/template/descriptors.pm
[...]
active_1.1/index-new/
active_1.1/index-new/INDEX_OK
active_1.1/index-old/                   <-- index-old not excluded
active_1.1/index-old/Directory/
[...]
active_1.1/index/
active_1.1/index/Directory/
[...]

### Note that the whole index-old tree now appears between index-new
### and index


For reference:
%{prompt}% uname -a
FreeBSD stimpy 4.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #1: Mon Oct  9 17:54:38
BST 2000     address@hidden:/usr/src/sys/compile/SHERPA  i386


Both versions of tar were freshly compiled before running these tests.

I looked on www.gnu.org for any description of such a problem but
could find nothing about bugs at all.  The tar description page said
that there was a release 1.13.X done recently but the ftp site
appears to contain nothing newer than the version I have.


--Alex Zbyslaw
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