openSUSE Recommended Update: tar: fix archiving of offline files ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2012:0197-1 Rating: important References: #737331 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. It includes one version update. Description: The previous update of tar caused accessing files that are offline (where non-blocking read fails with EAGAIN) to be no longer archived. This update reverts the change to non-blocking mode, which avoids this issue. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.4: zypper in -t patch tar-5595 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 1.26]: tar-1.26-1.5.1 tar-backup-scripts-1.26-1.5.1 - openSUSE 11.4 (noarch) [New Version: 1.26]: tar-lang-1.26-1.5.1 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/737331