Debian bug report logs - #1144 tar --listed-incremental doesn't restore renames Package: tar ; Reported by: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson); 100 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cus.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Sun Jul 23 04:06:48 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sZyrw-000BE1C; Sun, 23 Jul 95 04:06 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA14171 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sun, 23 Jul 1995 04:05:11 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sZy9x-000BzgC; Sun, 23 Jul 95 11:21 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.32); Sun, 23 Jul 95 01:27 BST Message-Id: Date: Sun, 23 Jul 95 01:27 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Debian bugs submission address Subject: tar --listed-incremental doesn't restore renames Package: tar Version: 1.11.8-1 I may be doing something wrong here, but reading the documentation (such as it is) and the tar-1.11.8/scripts/level[01] files (and the associated WARNING) file seems to suggest that this is what I should do: chiark:d> ll total 6 drwxrwsr-x 2 ian ian 1024 Jul 23 01:20 ./ drwxrwsr-x 21 ian ian 5120 Jul 23 01:21 ../ chiark:d> mkdir directory chiark:d> echo hi >directory/file chiark:d> tar --listed=list -vvcf level0tar directory drwxrwsr-x ian/ian 0 Jul 23 01:21 1995 directory/ -rw-rw-r-- ian/ian 3 Jul 23 01:21 1995 directory/file chiark:d> tar vvtf level0tar drwxrwsr-x ian/ian 7 Jul 23 01:21 1995 directory/ -rw-rw-r-- ian/ian 3 Jul 23 01:21 1995 directory/file chiark:d> cp list list2 chiark:d> mv directory/file directory/spong chiark:d> tar --listed=list2 -vvcf level1tar directory drwxrwsr-x ian/ian 0 Jul 23 01:22 1995 directory/ chiark:d> ll directory/ total 3 drwxrwsr-x 2 ian ian 1024 Jul 23 01:22 ./ drwxrwsr-x 3 ian ian 1024 Jul 23 01:22 ../ -rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 3 Jul 23 01:21 spong chiark:d> rm -r directory chiark:d> tar -Gvvxf level0tar drwxrwsr-x ian/ian 7 Jul 23 01:21 1995 directory/ -rw-rw-r-- ian/ian 3 Jul 23 01:21 1995 directory/file chiark:d> tar -Gvvxf level1tar drwxrwsr-x ian/ian 8 Jul 23 01:22 1995 directory/ tar: Deleting directory/file chiark:d> ll directory/ total 2 drwxrwsr-x 2 ian ian 1024 Jul 23 01:23 ./ drwxrwsr-x 3 ian ian 1024 Jul 23 01:23 ../ chiark:d> (BTW, I want to use `tar' rather than `dump' because I don't want a backup program that grobbles around in the raw disk !) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1144 ; Package tar . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov