Ah, I see...
if I move the -X to the position of the first argument, it seems to work now.
That is fantastic!
Please disregard, and thank you for the fix.
Quoting cjdl01 <cjd...@brokensolstice.com>:
Hi,
I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but for some time, the last
several revisions of tar have been ignoring the -X or the --exclude
options.
This was mentioned in the debian bugs here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831007
It is also mentioned in the debian forums, but the thread was
hijacked by someone in need of some serious psychological counseling.
But I couldn't find corollary in the bug-tar archives... so I wanted
to make sure it was on record.
I don't know about others... but I still use tar extensively for my
system backups, on many systems. The exclude option is critical to
keep from the backup choking on itself, and filling up hard drives...
I've been looking, and cannot find an adequate work-around for this,
other than to pull older versions of GNU tar, and compile them from
source.
Is this known? Do you ever intend to fix this?
Thanks.
