On 10/26/10 11:58, Samuli Suominen wrote: > I've tried to mail this to [email protected], I even registered to the ML, > but it's not accepting my mail.
There's a delay, as the mailing list is human-reviewed. Have you tried the patch reported in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-10/msg00047.html>? > I hope you can forward it, or something. I am forwarding it now, as part of this message. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: tar-1.24 fails to extract specified directories from > kdebase-4.5.2.tar.bz2 > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:46:14 +0300 > From: Samuli Suominen <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], [email protected] > > tar-1.24 fails to extract specified directories from > kdebase-4.5.2.tar.bz2 [1] as reported downstream [2]. > > tar-1.23 success: > > unique tmp # tar -xpf /usr/portage/distfiles/kdebase-4.5.2.tar.bz2 > --transform="s|apps/||" kdebase-4.5.2/apps/konsole > unique tmp # > > tar-1.24 failure with (or without, doesn't make difference): > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/patch/?id=acb77ac5bd4bf9248070c9c512525eee8258aebd > > unique tmp # tar -xpf /usr/portage/distfiles/kdebase-4.5.2.tar.bz2 > --transform="s|apps/||" kdebase-4.5.2/apps/konsole > tar: kdebase-4.5.2/apps/konsole: Not found in archive > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > > [1] http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/distfiles/kdebase-4.5.2.tar.bz2 > [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342785
