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Date:      Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:18:46 +0200
From:      Gareth Bailey <gjbailey@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        kientzle@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date
Message-ID:  <48a5f32a05092707187844b052@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <448xxpchum.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <48a5f32a05090901591a16c062@mail.gmail.com> <44u0guw0ou.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <433242E9.2060100@freebsd.org> <448xxpchum.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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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



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