Bug 6929 – -X option broken in this release of tar

Bug 6929 - -X option broken in this release of tar

Summary:	-X option broken in this release of tar

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	tar (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported:	1999-11-11 10:30 EST by ehm
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-11-11 10:38:22 EST
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Description ehm 1999-11-11 10:30:29 EST

The -X option is broken in this release of tar.
It works in version tar-1.12-9 (RH 6.0), but is
broken in tar-1.13.11-1 (RH6.1).

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 1999-11-11 10:38:59 EST

I've just tried reproducing this. The -X option works for me

touch rubbish0 rubbish1
echo "rubbish1" >exclude.list
tar cf rubbish.tar r* -X exclude.list

doesn't include the rubbish1 file.

If there's anything else wrong with -X, please be a bit more specific
about what the problem is.
Also, you might want to try the tar version in rawhide (1.13.14-1).

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