Re: tar --exclude works with Mandrake but not potato

2000-06-22 Thread Matthew Thompson
Thanks, Colin. :) FYI, I was able to --force-downgrade to tar 1.12-7 from slink and it seems to work fine. I guess I'll just use the older version (unless there's a reason not to on a production server) until the bug is closed. Cheers. > Matthew Thompson <[EMAIL

Re: tar --exclude works with Mandrake but not potato

2000-06-22 Thread Igor Mozetic
Tar did change the exclude semantics between slink and potato: Patterns containing / now exclude only file names whose prefix match. >From tar info: A PATTERN containing `/' excludes a name if an initial subsequence of the name's components matches PATTERN; a PATTERN without `/' excludes a n

Re: tar --exclude works with Mandrake but not potato

2000-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
Matthew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My potato server (ftp/www/mail.mattyt.net) is running potato in one big >partition (except for /home/ftp/pub). The easiest way for me to do >periodic backups is to create one big tarball of the whole installation. >The way I always did this before was t

tar --exclude works with Mandrake but not potato

2000-06-21 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hello, all, Some may remember my post about this a short while back. My apologies for the redundancy, and for the posts to 2 different lists if that's inappropriate. I still don't have a resolution to my situation and am curious where to go from here. My potato server (ftp/www/mail.mattyt.net)