BSD tar broken file name parsing

[Steven Hartland]

Just had a really strange one, on a fresh 6.1 install
tar will not extract named files e.g.
tar -xvzPf my.tar.gz /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf

The above fails to extract the file which quite
clearly exists:
tar -tvzPf my.tar.gz | grep /usr/local/etc/httpd.conf
-rw-r--r--  0 root   wheel   37202 May  6 23:30 /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf

Similarly -tvzPf naming the file doesnt find the file.

Using wild cards finds the file:
tar -tvzPf my.tar.gz '*httpd.conf'                            
-rw-r--r--  0 root   wheel   37202 May  6 23:30 /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf

I suspect its -P processing that is broken. Installing
gtar and using that works fine:
gtar -xvzPf my.tar.gz /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf      
/usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf

gtar -tvzPf my.tar.gz /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel    37202 2006-05-06 23:30:58 /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf

    Steve


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