Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 11:23:54 -0000 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: "Brian Fundakowski Feldman" <green@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdtar / libarchive bug? Message-ID: <002101c5fcb3$0c563910$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <00c701c5fc1c$e6db4220$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20051208225404.GF98704@green.homeunix.org>
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From: "Brian Fundakowski Feldman" <green@freebsd.org>
> I don't think it will "happily create empty tar.gz files", even where
> by empty you mean the tar itself inside of the gz.
>
> {"/home/green" green@green}$ tar cfv x.tar
> tar: no files or directories specified
> {"/home/green" green@green}$ tar cfvz x.tar.gz
> tar: no files or directories specified
> {"/home/green" green@green}$ ls -l x.ta*
> ls: x.ta*: No such file or directory
Try this instead which is how I managed it ( not on purpose )
touch test.files
tar --files-from test.files -czf blank.tar.gz
Then to trigger the bug:
tar -xvzf blank.tar.gz
Steve
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