Bug#972831: tar: produces incorrect TAR+zstd archive when creating archive remotely

2020-10-25 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
On 10/24/20 6:22 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote: I took a quick look and the problem is with the use of localhost: in the filename, Thanks for checking! In fact the problem also exists for remote hosts. it appears to be unrelated to the compression algorithm chosen. With xz I can create correct a

Bug#972831: tar: produces incorrect TAR+zstd archive when creating archive remotely

2020-10-24 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Package: tar Version: 1.30+dfsg-7 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, here is a a short list of commands that demonstrate the problem (it needs a SSH server): $ mkdir foo $ tar --zstd -cvf localhost:foo.tar.zst foo $ zstd -t foo.tar.zst foo.tar.zst : 0 MB... zstd: foo.tar.zst:

Bug#972831: tar: produces incorrect TAR+zstd archive when creating archive remotely

2020-10-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
Laurent Bonnaud writes: > $ tar --zstd -cvf localhost:foo.tar.zst foo I took a quick look and the problem is with the use of localhost: in the filename, it appears to be unrelated to the compression algorithm chosen. I don't have time to chase this further today. Bdale signature.asc Descript