Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Sinve tar-1.21, there are spurious messages when extracting like:
>
> Record size = 8 blocks
>
> There is a fix for this in the git repository. Should we apply this
> or just wait for the next release of tar? Version 1.22 was released
> in March and 1.21 in December, so I'd think a new release is probably
> not too far away.
>
> If we add the patch, I don't think we should do it for 6.5, but just svn.
>
> Speaking of tar, it's reasonably well known that tar has no man page.
> Should we produce one from help2man?
> (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/) (CMMI but perl module
> Locale::gettext is required) By this, I'm suggesting that we might
> offer a download or tar.1, not install help2man.
>
> -- Bruce
>
>
> diff --git a/src/buffer.c b/src/buffer.c
> index 8edc257..a01af37 100644
> --- a/src/buffer.c
> +++ b/src/buffer.c
> @@ -679,6 +679,19 @@ archive_read_error (void)
> return;
> }
> +static bool
> +archive_is_dev ()
> +{
> + struct stat st;
> +
> + if (fstat (archive, &st))
> + {
> + stat_diag (*archive_name_cursor);
> + return false;
> + }
> + return S_ISBLK (st.st_mode) || S_ISCHR (st.st_mode);
> +}
> +
> static void
> short_read (size_t status)
> {
> @@ -690,7 +703,8 @@ short_read (size_t status)
> if (left && left % BLOCKSIZE == 0
> && verbose_option
> - && record_start_block == 0 && status != 0)
> + && record_start_block == 0 && status != 0
> + && archive_is_dev ())
> {
> unsigned long rsize = status / BLOCKSIZE;
> WARN ((0, 0,
Bruce over in CLFS we have a patch that add's the current man-page
without the tools.
http://svn.cross-lfs.org/svn/repos/cross-lfs/trunk/patches/tar-1.22-man_page-1.patch
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