[BusyBox] tar include/exclude interaction broken
Glenn McGrath
bug1 at optushome.com.au
Sat Oct 13 01:46:31 UTC 2001
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:13:05 -0600
Matt Kraai <kraai at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I've found a tar regression caused by the recent rewrite. If an
> archive contains
>
> foo/
> foo/bar
>
> and the user asks for foo to be extracted, but not foo/bar,
> BusyBox tar extracts neither. I've included a test case which
> demonstrates this in my latest test suite[1]. Could you please
> fix this?
>
> Matt
>
> 1. http://busybox.net/~kraai/testsuite-0.1.9.tar.gz
>
>
I dont know how to fix this, maybe we need to keep seperate include and
exclude lists all the way into unarchive() which would be a pain... plus i
dont how to best handle the exclude list entries being applied recursively
to an included directory name.
Anyone else have any ideas ?
Glenn
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