Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:02:43 GMT From: Volker Theile <votdev@gmx.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/119141: tar does not compress whole dirs in FreeBSD 6.3RC1 as it does in 6.2 Message-ID: <200712292002.lBTK2h95037477@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200712292010.lBTKA1Uh081033@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 119141 >Category: bin >Synopsis: tar does not compress whole dirs in FreeBSD 6.3RC1 as it does in 6.2 >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Dec 29 20:10:01 UTC 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Volker Theile >Release: FreeBSD6.3RC1 >Organization: FreeNAS >Environment: >Description: Compressing a whole directory creates different archives on FreeBSD 6.3RC1 and 6.2. On 6.3 a directory called '.' is created in the archive which contains the dirrctory structure i wanted to be compressed originally. FreeBSD6.2# tar -c -v -f - -C /usr/share/zoneinfo/ . | gzip -cv > /tmp/zoneinfo.tgz a . a Africa a America a Antarctica a Arctic a Asia .. a Africa/Harare a Africa/Ceuta 85.7% FreeBSD6.3# tar -c -v -f - -C /usr/share/zoneinfo/ . | gzip -cv > /tmp/zoneinfo.tgz a ./. a ./Africa a ./America a ./Antarctica a ./Arctic a ./Asia .. a ./Africa/Harare a ./Africa/Ceuta 85.7% >How-To-Repeat: Execute the following command: tar -c -v -f - -C /usr/share/zoneinfo/ . | gzip -cv > /tmp/zoneinfo.tgz >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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