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[Bug-tar] tar-1.13.92 loses directory structure


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: [Bug-tar] tar-1.13.92 loses directory structure
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:44:59 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

$ tar cf foo.tar include/asm/. include/linux/.
tar: Removing leading `include/asm/./' from member names
tar: Removing leading `include/linux/./' from member names
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.92
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

If asm and linux are symlinks, then the trailing "/." is needed to get
the files within the pointed-to directory.  But I don't want to lose
the directory structure in the tarball; 1.13.25 had better behavior
here.


paul




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