Bug 601368 – app-backup/flexbackup breaks with >=app-arch/tar-1.29 when making tar-based backups

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description John R. Graham 2016-12-01 16:30:16 UTC]

app-arch/tar-1.29 has apparently acquired some new command line order dependencies that previous version did not have. flexbackup-1.2.1-r12 erroneously includes some files in the tarball multiple times when used with the new tar. The attached patch reorders a command line option to avoid the bug and the attached modified ebuild applies the patch.

This change has proven to be backward compatible with all earlier versions of tar that are still in the tree.

This bug was initially discussed on the Forums here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1054416.html and the credit for the fix should go to Forum user Princess Nell.

[Comment 1 John R. Graham 2016-12-01 16:41:29 UTC]

Created attachment 454828 [details, diff]
Patch to correct the issue.

[Comment 2 John R. Graham 2016-12-01 16:42:34 UTC]

Created attachment 454830 [details]
Modified ebuild applies the above patch.

[Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2016-12-01 16:51:56 UTC]

Why no unified diff of the changed ebuild instead?

[Comment 4 John R. Graham 2016-12-01 17:32:40 UTC]

Well, I've been chastised for just including the diff in the past. If that's standard practice, I'll do so going forward.

[Comment 5 John R. Graham 2016-12-01 22:11:42 UTC]

Created attachment 454862 [details, diff]
Patch to ebuild to apply the above patch.

[Comment 6 Hans de Graaff 2016-12-11 08:09:26 UTC]

flexbackup-1.2.1-r13 includes this patch.

[Comment 7 John R. Graham 2018-02-20 14:19:15 UTC]

Resolving as the patch is now in the Portage tree.