The documentation for the CACHEDIR.TAG file is sadly lacking, and needs two items to be spelled out explicitly...
1) CACHEDIR.TAG *MUST* be a regular file, not a symlink. 2) the first 43 bytes of the CACHEDIR.TAG file *MUST* be... Signature: 8a477f597d28d172789f06886806bc55 This information is totally missing on the man page. I wasted a couple of days tring to get the --exclude-caches* features working. The info page mentions http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html im passing. That page no longer exists, but we do get re-directed to https://bford.info/cachedir/ with the proper info. How much longer before the brynosaurus web page turns into a dead link or, even worse, gets bought up by a porn site? I request that you explicitly include items 1 and 2 above in all tar documentation. "Link rot" happens on the web; deal with it. By including a few extra lines in the documentation files you no longer have to rely on somebody's personal web page being up, and/or re-directing properly. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
