Bug 1381187

Summary:	tar 1.29 broke --exclude
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kamil Páral <kparal>
Component:	tar	Assignee:	Pavel Raiskup <praiskup>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	25	CC:	kdudka, ovasik, praiskup, trepik
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Description Kamil Páral 2016-10-03 10:59:33 UTC

Description of problem:

With tar-2:1.28-7.fc24:

$ tar cvf test.tar /home/kparal/.thumbnails --exclude .thumbnails
$

With tar-2:1.29-1.fc25:

$ tar cvf test.tar /home/kparal/.thumbnails --exclude .thumbnails
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
/home/kparal/.thumbnails/
/home/kparal/.thumbnails/normal/
/home/kparal/.thumbnails/normal/edcfcea2d4e30b97f176cb556cf14816.png
/home/kparal/.thumbnails/normal/677c5741bc313b8959672d7b835ca18f.png
/home/kparal/.thumbnails/normal/639740e03397914475d64b36abb63052.png
...
$


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tar-2:1.29-1.fc25
tested on F25 system (downgraded tar to .fc24 package to verify it was working before)

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see description

Comment 1 Pavel Raiskup 2016-10-03 11:27:28 UTC

Thanks for the report, but unfortunately, this is expected change.  For more
info, have a look at:
info tar -n "Position-Sensitive Options"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1337864 ***