When running tar with the '--newer' option it outputs a list of all the files that are NOT newer, causing a rather large amount (MBs!) of output which ends up in my mailbox as I run this from Cron. This is a major pain as my backup script relies on this function of tar! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: tar --newer 20-Mar -cf x.tar * Actual Results: tar: pri/127.zone: file is unchanged; not dumped tar: pri/localhost.zone: file is unchanged; not dumped Expected Results: No output emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102- r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6agotnes5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6agotnes5 i686 AMD Athlon(TM)Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 8 2005, 07:16:53)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.isp.net.au/ftp/pub/gentoo/ ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp6.uni- erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://chod.cwru.edu/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/overlays/local /usr/local/portage/overlays/b oxed-main /usr/local/portage/overlays/boxed-test" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apache2 berkdb imap jpeg ldap mbox mpeg nls nptl pam perl pic png pnp readline sasl sse ssl tcpd tiff xml zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Created attachment 54311 [details, diff] Patch from tar maintainer Straight from tar maintainer, would be good to get this one patched in portage! http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-03/msg00001.html
added patch to cvs, thanks
Tested and works a treat, thanks for applying :)