After a bit more investigation I can see that Sergey's Hypothesis that
distros seem not to be including this file in their packages. I've
looked at a few distro's tar packages (such as Debian and Ubuntu) and
can see that it isn't there.
So definitely not something now being caused by tar as
On 15/10/2023 12:40, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
Hi Sergey,
Yes, perhaps. It is weird however that in 19 years you're the first who
noticed it. Perhaps package maintainers didn't include it in their
packages until now.
Ah! Now I look at old sources on the mirror I see it *isn't* new. Most
Hi Tony,
> It seems that a new "restore" script has been added to tar in
> 1.35.
It was added on May 8, 2004.
> This causes a conflict on machines where "dump" is installed,
> which seems not to be a very good idea. Perhaps a different name ought
> to be used?
Yes, perhaps. It is weird
"dump" is a long-standing and popular utility for backing up and
restoring EXT[234] filesystems (https://dump.sourceforge.io/). As part
of that utility, the "restore" program exists in /usr/bin.
It seems that a new "restore" script has been added to tar in 1.35. This
causes a conflict on
