Re: [Bug-tar] tar --delete -f [file] [deadfile] truncates [file] if [deadfile] is not in the tarball.

[Chad Page]

        This fixed it for us - thanks!

        - Chad

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

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> Chad Page <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > 
> >     We just migrated from 1.13 to 1.14 to fix a buffering problem, and
> > we quickly found that a sideeffect of the upgrade was that --delete on a
> > file no longer works correctly.  It removes the last 1-3 files when run in
> > this fashion.
> 
> Thanks for reporting. It seems that the bug was present
> in version 1.13.25 as well.
> 
> > I was able to workaround it by running a test delete using
> > pipes, but this is suboptimal.  Is there an option I'm not seeing that
> > will allow the rewriting to continue or a fix for this in 1.14.xx? Thanks,
> 
> Try attached patch.
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey
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