Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH 1/2] tests: new test sparse04 for --sparse --posix and long names

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Kamil Dudka <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Sergey, thank you for installing the patch.  However it does not address 
> extraction of already affected archives.  Given the fact that the bug was 
> introduced in tar-1.16, there might be a few of them.  Should we provide
> any solution for those?

Frankly speaking, I don't think there is any considerable number of
archives affected by this bug. And for those existing, the remedy
is as simple as renaming the extracted file to what it was expected
to be, so I don't think any special workaround is needed.

Regards,
Sergey