Re: [Bug-tar] time stamps and out-of-range values in incremental dumps

[Paul Eggert]

"Brian J. Murrell" <address@hidden> writes:

> I am experiencing the problem you have fixed with this patch (in msg
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-08/msg00017.html).
>
> I tried to apply your patch to release 1.5.91 but it did not want to go
> in too cleanly, so I applied it manually....
>
> Anyway, all went well during build but a single regression test failed:
>
>  29: changed file types in incrementals           FAILED (chtype.at:69)
>
> Did you get the same issue with your patch?
> Any ideas what might be wrong?

Sorry, no.

Instead of trying to do all that by hand, why not just use the latest
CVS tar?  It has the patch installed.  It might be a bit harder to get
started (since you need CVS etc), but it should be easier in the long
run.  Here's how to get started:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/tar co tar
cd tar
./bootstrap
./configure
make
make check

You shouldn't get any test failures.  (I don't, on my Debian stable
x86 host; I just did the above.)  For more details, please see
<http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tar/>.