On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: > Xavier schrieb: >> >> Before, repo-rm on the last package would leave the last package in >> the database, which was quite odd. >> Having an empty file would be odd too, because tar/bsdtar would fail on >> it. > > $ touch foo.db.tar.gz > $ bsdtar -xf foo.db.tar.gz > $ echo $? > 0 > $ >
I tried quite a while ago, I just remembered that at least one of the two failed :) It seems gnu tar still fails. And bsdtar could always have changed in the meantime, I don't know. Anyway this seems to work for all combination (4) of gnutar/bsdtar, so it is still my preferred solution : tar cvzf test.tar.gz -T /dev/null tar xf test.tar.gz
