Bugzilla – Bug 105191
tarl/targ doesn't work on GNU tar archives
Last modified: 2005-08-18 15:54:56 UTC
tarl should list filenames in broken archives, but it doesn't event work with correct ones: test@pixl:/tmp> tar cf - ~/ | tarl tar: Removing leading `/' from member names ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF ---apparent EOF test@pixl:/tmp> rpm -q tarfix tar tarfix-1.0-815 tar-1.15.1-8 test@pixl:/tmp> The same happens when I try to extract a file using targ. Maybe those tools are too old and don't understand the format GNU tar uses (but I can test any other tar(1) implementation ATM).
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