I'm using tar 1.15.1 on a Slackware 10.2 system.
I think I may have found a bug in tar 1.15.1. If this
is just ignorant pilot error, I apologize in advance
for wasting your time.
If I create a small tar file like this:
tar --create -P -f /tmp/TEST.tar /dev/sg0 /dev/sg1
I can list the contents of the archive like this:
tar -tf /tmp/TEST.tar
I can delete one of the files like this:
tar --delete -f /tmp/TEST.tar /dev/sg0
So far, so good.
But if I create a bzip2 compressed tar file like this:
tar --bzip2 --create -P -f /tmp/TEST.tar.bz2 /dev/sg0 /dev/sg1
I can list the contents of the archive like this
tar -tf /tmp/TEST.tar.bz2
But I'm not able to delete a file from the archive. This command:
tar --delete -f /tmp/TEST.tar.bz2 /dev/sg0
gives this output:
tar: Read 144 bytes from /tmp/TEST.tar.bz2
tar: /dev/sg0: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
I tried the same thing using gzip and also with no "-P"
with identical results.
Perhaps "--delete" is not intended to work with compressed tar files.
If that's true, I would suggest that that "--info" information be
expanded because I couldn't find anywhere where it says that.
Hope I didn't waste your time....
Respectfully,
Paul Novak
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