bsdtar / libarchive bug?

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Fundakowski Feldman" <green at freebsd.org>
> I don't think it will "happily create empty tar.gz files", even where
> by empty you mean the tar itself inside of the gz.
> 
> {"/home/green" green at green}$ tar cfv x.tar
> tar: no files or directories specified
> {"/home/green" green at green}$ tar cfvz x.tar.gz
> tar: no files or directories specified
> {"/home/green" green at green}$ ls -l x.ta*
> ls: x.ta*: No such file or directory

Try this instead which is how I managed it ( not on purpose )
touch test.files
tar --files-from test.files -czf blank.tar.gz

Then to trigger the bug:
tar -xvzf blank.tar.gz

    Steve


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