Bug 465803

Summary:	tar -M --label "foo was here" does not created headers with volume numbers
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	netbeans
Component:	tar	Assignee:	Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	kdudka, ovasik
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Description netbeans 2008-10-06 14:09:44 UTC

Description of problem:
Tried creating multi-volume tapes. Tar used to create volume headers with its own volume number ( so u can tell which one was first, second, ..... ). Tar use to do that automagically. Now it does not.


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How reproducible: Presuming I did it correctly, always.


Steps to Reproduce:
tar cfb /dev/st0 256 -M --new-volume-script /home/gat/SwitchOutTapes --label "PE1800 October 6 2008" largeraid raid

Actual results:
no volume numbers on the tape volumes

Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2008-10-27 18:01:26 UTC

data point: seems to work on F-7 tar

Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2008-11-03 13:37:26 UTC

This feature seems to disappear between upstream releases 1.15.1 and 1.16. Is it documented somewhere?

Comment 3 netbeans 2008-11-03 14:44:21 UTC

Are you asking me for documentation as to why it disappeared?
Are you asking me if there is any ( recent ) documentation on how the tar switches are supposed to operate?
Are you asking me for the release notes - which I suppose should have had notes on this.


For some folks, this is how tar is supposed to operate, irrespective of DOC's

Comment 4 Kamil Dudka 2008-11-03 20:10:26 UTC

Fixed by upstream:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2008-11/msg00006.html

A testing rpm should be available soon.

Comment 5 Kamil Dudka 2008-11-05 14:16:19 UTC

You can test this scratch build:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=918086

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2008-11-10 13:45:20 UTC

tar-1.20-4.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tar-1.20-4.fc10

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-11-10 13:45:23 UTC

tar-1.19-5.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tar-1.19-5.fc9

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-11-12 02:51:40 UTC

tar-1.19-5.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-11-22 16:43:03 UTC

tar-1.20-4.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.