GNU bug report logs - #8380
"tar u" ignores files if archive modification time >= folder modification time

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Karsten Loesing <karsten.loesing <at> gmx.net>

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 8380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Karsten Loesing <karsten.loesing <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 8380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8380: "tar u" ignores files if archive modification time
	>=	folder modification time
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:41:24 -0600

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On 03/30/2011 06:13 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> today I found that "tar u" doesn't update an archive unless the folder's
> modification time is newer than the archive's modification time.

Thanks for the report; however, this would better be reported to the
bug-tar list, since tar is not part of GNU coreutils.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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