Bug 192770
| Summary: | tar produces verbose output, even when verbose is not specified | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Jim Perrin <james.l.perrin> | ||||||
| Component: | tar | Assignee: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | iarrusl, tao | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2006-0662 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2006-09-14 04:31:53 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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| Bug Blocks: | 201655 | ||||||||
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Created attachment 129846 [details]
proposed patch
Created attachment 129894 [details]
patch of the previous patch
the previous patch seemed to be made from an attempted patch, and not the tar
source. This one should apply cleanly.
*** Bug 205877 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0662.html |
Description of problem: tar produces verbose output, even when -v is not specified. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 4 fastrack channel tar, version tar-1.14-10.RHEL4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install tar 2. Run a tar backup command like -> tar --newer=./backup.timestamp -czf ./foo.tar.gz . 3. Note that unchanged files are also listed in the output, with "file is unchanged; not dumped" 4. This extra output was not in previous versions of tar before this one. Actual results: All files are listed in tar output, even unchanged files. Expected results: Only changed files should produce output unless -v is specified. Additional info: Email communication with Sergey Poznyakoff (tar developer) confirms that this 'feature' of tar was added, then reverted because of its annoyance. It should now only be available with -v or --verbose. Email communication with sergey copied below > A while back, someone posted a bug / feature request for version 1.15.1 to > disable the "file is unchanged; not dumped" messages that occur when doing a > backup with --newer, or a switch to revert to the old behavior. Recent versions print this message only if given the -v (--verbose) option. Regards, Sergey This added output was not in previous versions of tar released in RHEL, nor is it produced by current vanilla tar source (version 1.15.90). This addded output is far from desirable and increases the size of backup logs from 3-4K daily to 375K daily.