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
