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and subject line Tar behavior now is as it always should have been
has caused the Debian Bug report #826195,
regarding Tar fails to --exclude files
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Package: tar
Version: 1.29-1
Hi,
this is a regression in tar 1.28-2.1 -> 1.29-1 and by that it is valid for
Debian Stretch (Testing).
Fortunately there is at least a simple test:
rm -rf dir; mkdir -p dir/subdir; touch dir/subdir/file; tar -c -f
/tmp/test.tar -C dir subdir --exclude subdir/file; tar -tf /tmp/test.tar
subdir/file
Correct:
tar: subdir/file: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Wrong:
subdir/file
This could cause quite a few weird/under-the-radar bugs all around - like
in my package which suddenly had more binaries. "Fortunately" one of them
collided with one of the system, so we found this issue.
Note: this is not a dup to bug 655895 - while the title is similar, the old
bug referred to a much older tar version and had a more complex --exclude
pattern - this simpler test was still ok back then (Tested on wheezy with
1.26+dfsg-0.1).
Kind Regards,
Christian
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--- Begin Message ---
close 826195
merge 824902
As mentioned before it is now clarified that the users of tar "did it
wrong" and before it just accidentally worked.
That said it is correct to close this bug and merge it with the related one
which was earlier.
May the report help the next one running into it of search engines find
that.
Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
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