Bug 162173

Summary: Some tar options are not working
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alberto Ferrante <alberto_ferrante>
Component: tarAssignee: Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Alberto Ferrante 2005-06-30 16:22:44 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The --exclude, --exclude-from, and -N (and maybe others) options do not work with this version of tar.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tar-1.15.1-5.i386.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.type 'tar cvf destfile.tar sourcedir --exclude file_to_exclude
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Actual Results:  The tar file is created, but file_to_exclude is not excluded from processing. An error is reported as '--exclude file_to_exclude' were interpreted as filenames. The same happens with the other non-working options.

Expected Results:  file_to_exclude should have been excluded from processing; no error messages.

Additional info:

Downgrading to tar-1.14-4 (from FC3) solves the problem.
Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2005-07-01 07:36:16 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161627 ***