Hello, a few years ago, I reported a bug against tar [1]. This problem does not appear any more (tar 1.20 in Debian lenny). But when using absolute paths:
ma...@box:~/tmp$ tar uf test.tar /home/mazur/tmp/tar-bug/ tar: Entferne führende »/« von Elementnamen ma...@box:~/tmp$ tar tf test.tar home/mazur/tmp/tar-bug/ home/mazur/tmp/tar-bug/test1/ home/mazur/tmp/tar-bug/test1/datei ma...@box:~/tmp$ tar uf test.tar /home/mazur/tmp/tar-bug/ tar: Entferne führende »/« von Elementnamen ma...@box:~/tmp$ tar tf test.tar home/mazur/tmp/tar-bug/ home/mazur/tmp/tar-bug/test1/ home/mazur/tmp/tar-bug/test1/datei home/mazur/tmp/tar-bug/ home/mazur/tmp/tar-bug/test1/ home/mazur/tmp/tar-bug/test1/datei the problem is still present. with best regards, Martin PS: please CC, I'm still off-list :-) [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-06/msg00024.html
