[Bug 1043028] Re: tar fails to verify incremental archives

[Nathan Rennie-Waldock]

Upstream commit fixing this:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=d88b2a613f4b1a5554e8c34c8f75b91abff5f0e9


nathan:~/tar-1.26$ curl -s http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/patch/?id=d88b2a613f4b1a5554e8c34c8f75b91abff5f0e9 | patch -p1
patching file src/common.h
Hunk #1 succeeded at 522 (offset -2 lines).
patching file src/compare.c
patching file src/incremen.c
nathan:~/tar-1.26$ ./configure && make
nathan:~/tar-1.26$ mkdir -p Temp/{a,d}
nathan:~/tar-1.26$ ./src/tar -cWvf Temp.tar -g Temp.snar Temp
Temp/
Temp/a/
Temp/d/
Verify Temp/
Verify Temp/a/
Verify Temp/d/


** Tags added: patch

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Title:
  tar fails to verify incremental archives

Status in “tar” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  tar fails to verify incremental archives.
  The tar is created correctly, but fails to verify. This only happens with incremental.

  Log:
  $ mkdir -p Temp/{a,d}
  $ tar -cWf Temp.tar -g Temp.snar Temp
  tar: Temp/: Cannot savedir: Not a directory
  tar: Temp/a/: Cannot savedir: Not a directory
  tar: Temp/d/: Cannot savedir: Not a directory
  tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

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