Re: [Bug-tar] Re: 1.16.1 MASSIVE test failures

[Joerg Schilling]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> wrote:

> The tests related to incremental backups (9 tests) and fail due to the same
> reason (each created file becomes `new' or `changed' for the next tar run).
>
> The remaining test (#55 -- sparse03.at) fails because cmp reports I/O error:
>
>    +cmp: sparsefile: Input/output error

Did you remember that I recently reported that GNU tar is not able
to correctly extract sparce files that end in a hole?

Jörg

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