On Thursday 20 July 2006 00:14, Olivier Nicole wrote:
>> >> I haven't had a chance to test the script yet, but since I ran
>> >> across this thread about changes in GNU tar from the Debian
>> >> developers list
>> >> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/06/msg01108.html>
>> >> default
>>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-06/msg00001.html
>
>Reading the changelog for GNU tar 1.15.91 is even more frightening, it
>does not affect only the exclude file, but it does affect the extract
>command: tar xf foo.tar *.c now means to extract the file name "*.c",
>not all the files ending with .c

Yikes!  I assume thats been filed as a bug?  If not, why not?

>How would amrestore react?
>
>For safety, one should not use tar 1.15.91 right now I guess.

No guessing about it Olivier.

I sometimes wonder why, when a utility such as tar, which can be said to 
be a mature utility now after what, 30-35 years, is still being diddled 
with, and diddled is exactly the word I intended to use.  Mature code 
that everyone KNOWS how it works, should NOT be the subject of endless 
experimentation such as we've seen take place over the last 4-5 years.

Above all else, backwards compatibility should be maintained, and its 
been broken at least twice in that time frame by 1.12 and 1.14.  
Incomprehensible...

>Olivier

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