Description of Problem:
TAR creates empty archive when both an exclude pattern file and an absolute path
to tar is given.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.13.25-4.7.1

How Reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mkdir tarbug;cd tarbug; echo "*.o#" | tr '#' '\n' > exclude;touch foo
2. tar cvZ -X exclude -N "20021103 04:25:36" -f tarbug.tgz `pwd`/foo
3. 

Actual Results:
Empty tar file is created.

Expected Results:
Tar file containing 'foo'

Additional Information:
tar-1.13.19-6 does work.

Take this as a SERIOUS issue: many backup system rely on explude pattern file +
backing up absolute paths. Having empty backup is quite nasty.
My backup system just broke on this !

I'm not sure if the -N flag does matter. Didnt checked.