> tar-1.24 fails to extract specified directories from > kdebase-4.5.2.tar.bz2 [1] as reported downstream [2].
A similar report arrived a couple of hours ago. I posted a patch in response[1]. This patch (along with a testcase) has already been pushed to the repository[2]. Regards, Sergey [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-10/msg00047.html [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=28e91b48f680a6fab90ee39145123647345f385f
