Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:42:23 +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: <48a5f32a0509270742745a7dc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48a5f32a05092707187844b052@mail.gmail.com> References: <48a5f32a05090901591a16c062@mail.gmail.com> <44u0guw0ou.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <433242E9.2060100@freebsd.org> <448xxpchum.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <48a5f32a05092707187844b052@mail.gmail.com>
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Just to add, I seem to be experiencing similar behaviour using the -P optio= n: # tar -P -cvf archive.tar /usr/archive/Pimani/ .. files get added # tar -P -uvf archive.tar /usr/archive/Pimani/ a /usr/archive/Pimani/Pimani Presentation/multimedia/August 2005/LM_001_PRINT_050119/Thumbs.db a /usr/archive/Pimani/Pimani Presentation/multimedia/August 2005/26 August/t-shirtlogomany.gif Result: Directory structure was static but two files were added again. The non-absolute path workaround worked fine: # cd / # tar -cvf archive.tar usr/archive/Pimani/ .. files added # tar -uvf archive.tar usr/archive/Pimani/ Result: No files were added again (good). Just to bring to your attention. Gareth Bailey On 9/27/05, Gareth Bailey <gjbailey@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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