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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