Bug 510714

Summary: tar does not interpret --no-wildcards option right
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Daniel Novotny <dnovotny>
Component: tarAssignee: Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto>
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Version: 5.3CC: mcermak
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Description Daniel Novotny 2009-07-10 12:29:16 UTC 
Description of problem:
tar interpret wildcards in the files it has to extract, even if the --no-wildcards option is used

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.15.1

How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. touch with_wildcards\[abc\]
2. tar -cf wild.tar with_wildcards\[abc\]
3. tar --no-wildcards -xf wild.tar with_wildcards[abc]
  
Actual results:
tar: with_wildcards[abc]: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Expected results:
extract the file

Additional info:
the error is not present in newer versions of tar, i.e. in current Fedora this works
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2010-03-30 08:19:09 UTC 
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 therefore 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-2010-0224.html