On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Josef Wolf wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:34:42PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > > > > * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format. > > > > Can someone please explain what this exactly means? > > The format to store information about the incrementals was changed. Since > Amanda made some assumptions about this format (while she shouldn't have > cared, > and just considered it as opaque files), this broke Amanda. > After the fix, Amanda just treats the files as opaque files. > > But be careful, at least the tar 1.15.91-2 from Debian is broken: it ignores > the --one-file-system option when doing incrementals, causing exorbitant > backup > sizes for any level > 0. I don't know about the upstream version, but since > this bug has been reported almost 2 months ago, I'm afraid that one is broken, > too.
Apparently the problem is more subtle. Thanks to the Debian bug tracking system, I noticed this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384508 tar: -l option changed meaning, without any warning! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
