Bug 6665

Summary:	tar fails to properly parse exclude patterns...
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	bmacy
Component:	tar	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	gp, pbrown, strobert, ted.belding
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Description bmacy 1999-11-02 22:28:06 UTC

Assuming a /usr/local/src tree exists try:
tar -cvpf fred.tar --exclude='*/src/*' /usr/local

It still archives /usr/local/src. Same occurs if you use
'-X' flag and refer to a file with the pattern in it.

Excluding /usr/local/src/* does work. This is a change from
RedHat versions 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, and 6.0 and appears to be a
bug.

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2000-01-14 03:43:59 UTC

bero, I can verify this, even with tar-1.13.17-1.  Shall we downgrade?

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-01-18 11:14:59 UTC

I've passed the bug on to bugs-tar - hope they get it fixed for 1.13.18
in time. I don't really want to downgrade because that would get back some bugs
that were fixed in between.

Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-07-17 15:34:03 UTC

The tar maintainers claim it's not a bug, but a feature (better POSIX
compliance).