[BusyBox] did that patch to "tar" ever make it in?

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Aug 13 18:08:43 UTC 2005


On Saturday 13 August 2005 11:29, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 August 2005 04:13, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >   i'm just about to check the latest revision but, if someone
> > > wants to save me the trouble, was "tar" ever patched to handle
> > > recursive extractions of entire directories yet?  thanks.
> >
> > Which patch?  (10882 affected tar but I believe that was figuring
> > out if an archive ended early.)
> >
> > If it isn't in 1.1, it isn't in 1.0.  Otherwise, point me at the SVN
> > number...
>
> i don't think it was officially submitted, the patch was just posted
> on this list a while back.

Well, posting on the list counts as officially submitting, but if it didn't go 
into 1.1 it's not in 1.0.1.

There will be a 1.0.2.  Hopefully much sooner than 1.0.1 took...

> i'll track it down -- it had to do with 
> the fact that, if you selected a directory to extract, it did not
> extract recursively.  now, where did i put that ...

Getting it into 1.1 would be good anyway...

> rday

Rob



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