bin/144786: bsdtar(1) missing support for multi line matching

Alexander Best alexbestms at wwu.de
Tue Mar 16 12:40:02 UTC 2010


>Number:         144786
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       bsdtar(1) missing support for multi line matching
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 16 12:40:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alexander Best
>Release:        9.0-CURRENT
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD otaku 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #3 r205121M: Mon Mar 15 01:48:47 CET 2010     root at otaku:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARUNDEL  amd64
>Description:
bsdtar(1) doesn't support multi line matching or it is broken. single line matching works (see example).
>How-To-Repeat:
under "bsdtar 2.7.0 - libarchive 2.7.901a" observe the results of:

`echo "var/tmp" > ./exclude && tar ycvf test.tar.bz -X ./exclude /var/tmp`
and
`echo -n "var/tmp" > ./exclude && tar ycvf test.tar.bz -X ./exclude /var/tmp`
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
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