tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date

Gareth Bailey gjbailey at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 07:18:47 PDT 2005


Hi Tim,

> 5-STABLE is sufficiently different that the patch doesn't apply,
> unfortunately.  It will take me a few days to figure out whether
> it's best to work up a different patch for 5-STABLE or whether
> I should MFC a lot of work from 6-STABLE to 5-STABLE.

Unfortunately our server is also on the 5 stable branch.

> Please check that the following does work (without the leading '/'):
>
>   tar -cf foo.tar usr/dir_a/dir_b
>   tar -uvf foo.tar usr/dir_a/dir_b

This works just fine. Thank you for response and suggested workarounds.

Gareth Bailey


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