Bug 104766
| Summary: | --newer incorrect for same time | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | arch harris <service> |
| Component: | tar | Assignee: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-10-27 10:53:59 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This bug is already fixed in new version of tar from upstream. I suggest: - upgrade tar from upstream - get new FC3(available soon) $ >file1 $ >file2 $ tar cvf test.tar file1 file2 file1 file2 $ tar tvf test.tar --newer ./file1 -rw-rw-r-- peter/peter 0 2004-10-27 12:35:29 file2 $ tar tvf test.tar --newer ./file2 $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.14 |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: The newer option should have files appended/extracted only if the file is NEWER. However it incorrectly appends/extracts if the file has the same time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.cd /tmp; touch file 2.tar -cvf tst.tar file 3.tar -xvf tst.tar --newer /tmp/file file Actual Results: File is extracted. Expected Results: File should not be extracted, it is not newer than /tmp/file. Additional info: