Ubuntu
tar package

tar fails - kills openembedded

Bug #700058 reported by K Richard Pixley
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Bug Description

Ubuntu-10.10 comes with a broken version of tar.

GNU tar-1.23 has a bug and cannot properly remove directories using --remove-files. GNU tar-1.24 and 1.25 do not have this problem.

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K Richard Pixley (rich-noir) wrote :

I'm attaching a short shell script which demonstrates the problem.

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K Richard Pixley (rich-noir) wrote :

As an aside, the version of openembedded that I'm using includes the use of tar and this option. It therefor can't run on ubuntu-10.10 which has the broken tar.

Building and installing tar-1.25 from debian sid solves the problem.

affects: ubuntu → tar (Ubuntu)
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