Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-04-01 Thread Vincent Rivière
On 13/01/2021 at 17:52, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: This turned out to be a Cygwin bug, which has now been fixed. I upgraded again tar to version 1.34-1: fail. Then I upgraded to cygwin 3.20.0-1 using official setup-x86.exe: pass! Many thanks for this fix. Highly appreciated. Kind regards,

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-30 Thread Michael Soegtrop
have you tried the Cygwin snapshot as suggested in: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2021-January/247418.html The snapshot is hard to use in headless CI systems because the provided archive contains a cygwin dll, so it cannot be patched from within cygwin and my experience with doing

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-30 Thread Michael Soegtrop
Hi Marco, have you tried the Cygwin snapshot as suggested in: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2021-January/247418.html sorry, I somehow missed this message. I will try this and report if it works. Thanks! Best regards, Michael -- Problem reports:

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-30 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 30.01.2021 15:58, Michael Soegtrop via Cygwin wrote: Dear Cygwin Team, is there an update on this? Apparently tar is broken on Cygwin 32 since the latest update (it works fine on 64 bit Cygwin) and afaik there is no way to install specific package versions from the command line as would

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-30 Thread Michael Soegtrop via Cygwin
Dear Cygwin Team, is there an update on this? Apparently tar is broken on Cygwin 32 since the latest update (it works fine on 64 bit Cygwin) and afaik there is no way to install specific package versions from the command line as would be possible via the Setup UI, so I can't easily roll back

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-13 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 1/13/2021 4:07 PM, Morgan King via Cygwin wrote: On 13 January 2021 19:02, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Jan 13 11:52, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 1/11/2021 2:57 PM, Morgan King via Cygwin wrote: Hello, I am experiencing the same issue with tar and I am able to reproduce it

RE: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-13 Thread Morgan King via Cygwin
On 13 January 2021 19:02, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > On Jan 13 11:52, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > On 1/11/2021 2:57 PM, Morgan King via Cygwin wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am experiencing the same issue with tar and I am able to reproduce it > following the steps at: > > >

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Jan 13 11:52, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > On 1/11/2021 2:57 PM, Morgan King via Cygwin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am experiencing the same issue with tar and I am able to reproduce it > > following the steps at: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2011-08/msg6.html > > > >

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-13 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 1/11/2021 2:57 PM, Morgan King via Cygwin wrote: Hello, I am experiencing the same issue with tar and I am able to reproduce it following the steps at: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2011-08/msg6.html This issue only appears to occur when using 32-bit Cygwin, I am unable to

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Jan 12 12:49, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > On 1/12/2021 12:15 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 12 11:55, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > > [...] > > > This appears to be a bug in fstat in 32-bit Cygwin. Here's what I'm > > > seeing > > > in gdb, using an unoptimized build of

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown via Cygwin writes: […] > I don't see how that could be expected to work, since several members > of struct __stat32 have different sizes than the corresponding members > of struct stat. I wonder if it worked by accident in the past, but > the problem is just showing up with newer gcc

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-12 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 1/12/2021 12:15 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 12 11:55, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 1/11/2021 6:50 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 1/11/2021 2:57 PM, Morgan King via Cygwin wrote: Hello, I am experiencing the same issue with tar and I am able to reproduce it following the steps

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Jan 12 11:55, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > On 1/11/2021 6:50 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > On 1/11/2021 2:57 PM, Morgan King via Cygwin wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am experiencing the same issue with tar and I am able to reproduce > > > it following the steps at: > > >

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-12 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 1/11/2021 6:50 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 1/11/2021 2:57 PM, Morgan King via Cygwin wrote: Hello, I am experiencing the same issue with tar and I am able to reproduce it following the steps at: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2011-08/msg6.html This issue only

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-12 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 12.01.2021 09:18, ASSI wrote: Ken Brown via Cygwin writes: I can confirm this. Running the tar command under gdb shows a problem at gnu/fchmodat.c:94: 94if (S_ISLNK (st.st_mode)) That should be foolproof, but apparently isn't. Unfortunately the handful of commits that

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-12 Thread ASSI
Ken Brown via Cygwin writes: > I can confirm this. Running the tar command under gdb shows a problem > at gnu/fchmodat.c:94: > > 94if (S_ISLNK (st.st_mode)) That should be foolproof, but apparently isn't. > Here st is a stat structure for directory/1, so S_ISLNK() should be > true.

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-11 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 1/11/2021 2:57 PM, Morgan King via Cygwin wrote: Hello, I am experiencing the same issue with tar and I am able to reproduce it following the steps at: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2011-08/msg6.html This issue only appears to occur when using 32-bit Cygwin, I am unable to

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-11 Thread Morgan King via Cygwin
Hello, I am experiencing the same issue with tar and I am able to reproduce it following the steps at: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2011-08/msg6.html This issue only appears to occur when using 32-bit Cygwin, I am unable to reproduce it using 64-bit Cygwin. I need to use

Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Vincent Rivière writes: > On 10/01/2021 à 14:50, Achim Gratz wrote: >> GNU tar has been updated to the latest upstream release 1.33. > > Unfortunately it has reintroduced this old bug: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2011-08/msg6.html It's quite unlikely the same bug since there

tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

2021-01-11 Thread Vincent Rivière
On 10/01/2021 à 14:50, Achim Gratz wrote: GNU tar has been updated to the latest upstream release 1.33. Unfortunately it has reintroduced this old bug: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2011-08/msg6.html This happens when symlinks are located before the target in the source