Bug 591250

Summary: virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if the archive is compressed or not in the right format
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2010-05-11 18:19:28 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #591155 +++

virt-tar -u gives an obscure error if the archive is compressed.

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-05-13 09:27:42 UTC
Patches posted upstream to improve the error messages:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-May/msg00062.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-May/msg00063.html

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 11:36:14 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-10-16 13:24:03 UTC
This bug should be in the Virtualization Tools product.