X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4C767140.7040107@redhat.com> References: <4C767140.7040107@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:21:40 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Possible tar version 1.23-1 --remove-files bug. From: Jeremy Warren To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Yes, sorry, I tried to send an email waving everyone off. I did not have available a linux machine with the same version until this morning, when I downloaded and compiled the 1.23 and found it existed as well there. I have re-posted to tar-bug list and await their response. Thanks On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/25/2010 10:49 PM, Jeremy Warren wrote: >> >> I have duplicated the following behavior on 2 different machines >> CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.7.6(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-16 16:06 i686 =A0(Windows 2003 R2 >> Server) >> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-12 19:07 i686 =A0(Windows XP Desk= top) >> Both are running tar version 1.23-1 and the problem is 100% >> reproducible in my environment. > > Have you also tested this on Linux? =A0I've done very little in the way of > cygwin patches (mainly binary mode handling issues), so this is likely an > upstream regression that affects all platforms. =A0Note: I haven't had ti= me to > test it myself, yet. > >> It appears from the release notes that some changes were made in >> 1.23-1 related to the --remove-files argument >> "** The --remove-files option removes files only if they were >> succesfully stored in the archive." > > -- > Eric Blake =A0 eblake@redhat.com =A0 =A0+1-801-349-2682 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > > -- > Problem reports: =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: =A0 =A0 =A0http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple