Package: tar Version: 1.19-1 --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
Since v1.19 the behaviour of tar in read mode has changed, see NEWS.gz: [...] * Recognition of broken archives. When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes in reading mode (-x, -t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message: 'This does not look like a tar archive', and exits with code 2. [...] This change does clearly affect also -r (appending), since a valid tar archive needs to be opened before such operation. This affects also konqueror/ark's archive handling since in order to create a new archive by right-clicking a file or a directory a tar rvf /tmp/somedir/somefile.tar myfile command is being issued. I think that this bug report should be closed and that specific bug reports against file-roller and ark should be filed instead since the behaviour is consistent with the new choices of the developers. Thanks Mau --- System information. --- Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-p4 Debian Release: lenny/sid 990 unstable ftp.de.debian.org 990 testing security.debian.org 990 testing ftp.de.debian.org 900 unstable mi.mirror.garr.it 900 unstable download.tuxfamily.org 900 unstable deb.opera.com 900 testing mi.mirror.garr.it 500 voip-snapshots-debian-sid snapshots.ekiga.net 500 etch-wx apt.wxwidgets.org 400 unstable ftp.debian-unofficial.org 400 testing ftp.debian-unofficial.org 200 unstable sidux.com 200 stable security.debian.org 200 stable mi.mirror.garr.it 200 stable ftp.de.debian.org 150 stable ftp.debian-unofficial.org 150 experimental ftp.de.debian.org --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed =======================-+-=========== | -- ------------------------------- Maurizio Avogadro di Cerrione mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
