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and subject line Bug#577978: fixed in tar 1.23-2.1
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regarding tar: infinite loop in case of existing symlink
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Package: tar
Version: 1.23-1
Severity: important
Hello!
I found a problem in this version of tar.
tho...@boole:/tmp/d $ ar x
../tmp.cgJjcD65ng/target/var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.1-2_hurd-i386.deb
tho...@boole:/tmp/d $ gunzip < data.tar.gz | tar -xkf -
tho...@boole:/tmp/d $ ls -l bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 thomas thomas 4 8. Apr 00:23 bin/sh -> bash
tho...@boole:/tmp/d $ ar x
../tmp.cgJjcD65ng/target/var/cache/apt/archives/dash_0.5.5.1-3_hurd-i386.deb
tho...@boole:/tmp/d $ gunzip < data.tar.gz | tar -xkf -
At this point no further progress is being made, and strace tells me:
symlink("dash", "./bin/sh") = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
symlink("dash", "./bin/sh") = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
symlink("dash", "./bin/sh") = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
symlink("dash", "./bin/sh") = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
symlink("dash", "./bin/sh") = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
[...]
dash tries to replace the /bin/sh symlink (which tar -k should prevent),
but there's obviously something wrong.
This should not be specific to using hurd-i386 debs, but I didn't check.
(I found this problem while doing an installation of Debian GNU/Hurd
using Debian's crosshurd package.)
After installing tar_1.20-1_amd64.deb (Debian stable):
tho...@boole:/tmp/d $ rm -rf ./*
tho...@boole:/tmp/d $ ar x
../tmp.cgJjcD65ng/target/var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.1-2_hurd-i386.deb
tho...@boole:/tmp/d $ gunzip < data.tar.gz | tar -xkf -
tho...@boole:/tmp/d $ ar x
../tmp.cgJjcD65ng/target/var/cache/apt/archives/dash_0.5.5.1-3_hurd-i386.deb
tho...@boole:/tmp/d $ gunzip < data.tar.gz | tar -xkf -
tar: ./bin/sh: Cannot create symlink to `dash': File exists
tar: ./usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz: Cannot create symlink to `dash.1.gz':
File exists
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tho...@boole:/tmp/d $ echo $?
2
tar doesn't hang. (I'm not sure that this error message is appropriate
with tar -k, but that's a different issue.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
tar recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tar suggests:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
pn ncompress <none> (no description available)
ii xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20100307-1 XZ-format compression utilities
-- no debconf information
Regards,
Thomas
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: tar
Source-Version: 1.23-2.1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tar, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
tar_1.23-2.1.diff.gz
to main/t/tar/tar_1.23-2.1.diff.gz
tar_1.23-2.1.dsc
to main/t/tar/tar_1.23-2.1.dsc
tar_1.23-2.1_i386.deb
to main/t/tar/tar_1.23-2.1_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Banck <[email protected]> (supplier of updated tar package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])
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Hash: RIPEMD160
Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:14:48 +0200
Source: tar
Binary: tar
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.23-2.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Michael Banck <[email protected]>
Description:
tar - GNU version of the tar archiving utility
Closes: 576876 577978
Changes:
tar (1.23-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Non-maintainer upload.
* src/extract.c: Apply upstream git commit b60e56fd which fixes a dead loop
on extracting existing symlinks with the -k option, closes: #577978,
#576876.
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