Bug 63046

Summary:	tar 1.13.19 can't handle hardlinks
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Jose Pedro Oliveira <jose.p.oliveira.oss>
Component:	tar	Assignee:	wdovlrrw <brosenkr>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	skipjack-beta2
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	61590

Description Jose Pedro Oliveira 2002-04-09 16:07:13 UTC

Description of Problem:
tar 1.13.19 (and 1.13.20 and 1.13.21) can4t handle hard links

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tar-1.13.19-6.i386.rpm

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Check the following messages

tar version 1.13.19 can't handle hard links
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/roswell-list/2001-August/001286.html

New tar version (1.13.22) 
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/roswell-list/2001-August/001322.html

and the attachment (id=31959) to bugzilla entry 46997
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46997

Comment 1 Jose Pedro Oliveira 2002-04-09 16:15:31 UTC

In september someone placed tar-1.13.25-3 in the Raw Hide mirrors.
That version had this problem corrected.

When you released the first beta of Skipjack the old version crept back in.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-04-09 22:09:18 UTC

Should be fixed in the next rawhide push.