Some time ago I tried to setup a script that uses tar to do incremental archives of my home directory. I wanted to archive /home/user/ without having the "home/user/" inside the archive, so I tried the "-C" option.
At that time, update just added all files to the archive, again and again. I workaround the issue and forgot about it. Recently I was reminded of this bug, so I decided to retest and report it. Now, tar 1.29 just errors with "Cannot stat: No such file or directory" Here is a script to reproduce the issue. --- #/bin/bash TESTDIR="/tmp/tarCu" #TESTDIR="./tmp/tarCu" mkdir -p $TESTDIR/a dd if=/dev/zero of=$TESTDIR/a/test.file bs=1K count=1 echo echo "Create tar archive" tar -vcf test.tar -C $TESTDIR/ a/ echo echo "Update tar archive" tar -vuf test.tar -C $TESTDIR/ a/ --- It doesn't matter if "/tmp" or "./tmp" is used, the result is the same. Best Regards Ivan Kalvachev
