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Date:      Thu, 3 May 2007 13:10:02 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Mikhail T." <mi+metlife@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, kientzle@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tar write.c
Message-ID:  <20070503171002.GA86430@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4639E3D0.1050208@aldan.algebra.com>
References:  <200703151011.l2FABc9Z013002@repoman.freebsd.org> <6eb82e0705022031g3b959688k5fb63b6e441a6d86@mail.gmail.com> <4639663D.1020308@freebsd.org> <20070503062438.GA50698@xor.obsecurity.org> <4639E3D0.1050208@aldan.algebra.com>

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On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:29:52AM -0400, Mikhail T. wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:34:05PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> >  
> >>Rong-en Fan wrote:
> >>    
> >>>On 3/15/07, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>>  Modified files:
> >>>>    usr.bin/tar          write.c
> >>>>  Log:
> >>>>  Don't consider an lstat(2) failure to be an error (in the sense of
> >>>>  affecting the return value from bsdtar) [...]
> >>>>        
> >>>This commit makes 'make package' successfully even if the plist is
> >>>wrong, i.e. it contains ``ghost'' files. Basically,
> >>>
> >>>$ tar zcvf a.tgz /aaa
> >>>tar: /aaa: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> >>>
> >>>It returns 0, so make package will be considered successful.
> >>>      
> >>I've fixed this in revision 1.62.
> >>
> >>Colin Percival
> >>    
> >
> >Thanks, I think mi@ ran into this recently too.
> >  
> So, this is fixed now?

A bug is fixed, dunno off-hand it's the one you ran into.

> I guess, the fears, that fixing it would require 
> fixing multitude of ports, were somewhat ungrounded.

Relax, it was just a guess.

Kris



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