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Re: tar-1.12 through tar-1.13.25: dir/file name conflict on restore with
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John E Hein |
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Re: tar-1.12 through tar-1.13.25: dir/file name conflict on restore with --listed-incremental |
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Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:18:55 -0700 |
Paul Eggert wrote at 10:42 -0800 on Dec 12:
> > From: John E Hein <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:52:43 -0700
> >
> > Do you agree that the following behavior (extracted from the info
> > pages, Node: Dealing with Old Files) is inappropriate when using
> > --listed-incremental? I am referring specifically to the behavior
> > when an existing non-empty directory conflicts with a file in an
> > "incremental" archive.
>
> It might not hurt to modify tar so that --listed-incremental implies
> --recursive-unlink. Can you supply a patch to do that?
>
> (The hardest part of the patch will be to modify the documentation. :-)
I could if you think it would be a good idea, but I'm not so sure now.
restore has the same type of issue unless you specify -u. So I think
that behavior is not entirely unexpected.