Re: [Cooker] [Bug 18945] [kdebase] New: TAR on directories

[John Campbell]

erwin.vandevelde@gmail.com wrote:

> User ID: 23990, 9 bugs reported (2 fixed, 2 duplicate, 1 invalid), 14 comments.
>
> http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18945
>
>      Distribution: cooker
>           Summary: TAR on directories
>           Product: kdebase
>           Version: 3.4.2-51mdk
>          Platform: All
>            Status: UNCONFIRMED
>          Severity: normal
>          Priority: normal
>         Component: kdebase
>        AssignedTo: kde@mandriva.com
>        ReportedBy: erwin.vandevelde@gmail.com
>
>
> I found the following weird bug in KDE applications (tested in Konqueror and  
> Ark, I suspect it must be a more basic KDE problem): 
> I had a directory with some files and 2 subdirectories (e.g. dir1 and dir2, 
> containing files too) and executed in the base directory: 
>
> # tar zcf x.tgz * 
> Opening in Konqueror showed the subdirectories twice (all files were OK) 
> Extracting x.tgz with Ark gave read errors on the subdirectories
You know that's a kind of dangerous habit to get into.  You're just 
lucky tar doesn't attempt to recursively add "x.tgz" to "x.tgz"  And you 
did this as root too...  You should be using something like "tar zcf 
/somepath/x.tgz *"

But still, I attempted to duplicate your problem.  I've never used "Ark" 
myself, preferring the command-line "tar"

Try "tar tvzf x.tgz" to see the unmangled file listing"

I couldn't really duplicate your problem.  Tar stores the directory 
names as their own entries so you might be seeing the "dir1" and 
"dir1/file" entries.

Are you sure you didn't attempt to untar your files over the old ones?   
That would cause the directory creation to fail, as they already exist.

> # tar zcf dir1 dir2 *.* 
> Opening in Konqueror showed the subdirectories once and all files were OK 
> Extracting x.tgz with Ark worked fine 
>
> What is happening in the first case???
>  
That command line is just too strange...  It's a DOS-ism.  "*.*" isn't 
normal.  It should also fail...as you're trying to create a tar file 
named "dir1"