Description of problem: tar, as used by file-roller, outputs a error message when creating new files. Despite that, the created archives seem to be ok. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tar-1.19-3.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a tar.bz2 or tar.gz file with file-roller. OR 1. Use the following command at the terminal: $ tar --force-local --no-recursion --no-wildcards -v -p -C /PATH/TO/FILE/TO/BE/ADDED -rf PATH/TO/ARCHIVE.tar Actual results: [pedro@spacelab ~]$ tar --force-local --no-recursion --no-wildcards -v -p -C Workspace/ -rf Workspace.tar tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Expected results: No error message. Additional info: This is a upstream bug in tar. It seems to be already fixed, so updating to the most recent version of tar should be enough.
Thanks for report. Sorry, but update to tar-1.20 is almost impossible for F9 (as some patches have to be heavily modified - I did that already for Rawhide fedora, but it is not something what I would like to do in stable release). Will try to find out upstream solution and possibly backport the patch to tar-1.19 .
Thanks!
Backported the fix, built as tar-1.19-4.fc9 (rpm available at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=663428 ) ... works ok on my machine. Could you please test it on your machine before I push new tar to stable?
tar-1.19-4.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
Installed the rpm here and it worked fine. No error message. Thanks. :)
tar-1.19-4.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.