Just to add, I seem to be experiencing similar behaviour using the -P option:
# tar -P -cvf archive.tar /usr/archive/Pimani/ .. files get added # tar -P -uvf archive.tar /usr/archive/Pimani/ a /usr/archive/Pimani/Pimani Presentation/multimedia/August 2005/LM_001_PRINT_050119/Thumbs.db a /usr/archive/Pimani/Pimani Presentation/multimedia/August 2005/26 August/t-shirtlogomany.gif Result: Directory structure was static but two files were added again. The non-absolute path workaround worked fine: # cd / # tar -cvf archive.tar usr/archive/Pimani/ .. files added # tar -uvf archive.tar usr/archive/Pimani/ Result: No files were added again (good). Just to bring to your attention. Gareth Bailey On 9/27/05, Gareth Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > > 5-STABLE is sufficiently different that the patch doesn't apply, > > unfortunately. It will take me a few days to figure out whether > > it's best to work up a different patch for 5-STABLE or whether > > I should MFC a lot of work from 6-STABLE to 5-STABLE. > > Unfortunately our server is also on the 5 stable branch. > > > Please check that the following does work (without the leading '/'): > > > > tar -cf foo.tar usr/dir_a/dir_b > > tar -uvf foo.tar usr/dir_a/dir_b > > This works just fine. Thank you for response and suggested workarounds. > > Gareth Bailey > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
