https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203600
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203600#c5
Simon Lees
When using SUSE version of tar it fails with error on extract:
tar -xv --unlink-first -f ../test.tar -C ~/test-unpack/
./ tar: .: Unexpected inconsistency when making directory ./hosts
OS: openSUSE Leap 15.3 tar version: tar-1.34-150000.3.18.1.x86_64
How to reproduce:
cd mkdir test-tar cp /etc/hosts test-tar cd test-tar tar cf ../test.tar .
I just attempted this using the version of tar from git and it fails with the following error, while the version in tumbleweed is fine. ../tar: ../test-tar: Cannot open: Is a directory ../tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now This would suggest that upstream has "Solved" this problem by deciding that any previous tars made in this way are no longer valid. Which is fine for upstream but would be considered a change in behavior so probably not acceptable for SLE. I'd probably have to spend a fair bit more time reading the code to work out if we could come up with a fix for bsc#1200657 that doesn't enforce this new behavior. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.