Bug 67573

Summary:	tar 1.14.90 and --exclude
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	petre rodan (RETIRED) <kaiowas>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description petre rodan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-14 12:14:16 UTC

muttley distfiles # tar -cf - ./ --exclude=distfiles.tar.bz2 --exclude=distfiles.tar.bz2.asc | bzip2 -9 > distfiles.tar.bz2

tar: --exclude=distfiles.tar.bz2: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: --exclude=distfiles.tar.bz2.asc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
muttley distfiles # ls -al |grep distfiles
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 234312 Oct 14 21:53 distfiles.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    189 Oct  7 21:24 distfiles.tar.bz2.asc

that first command works perfectly with tar-1.14.

Comment 1 petre rodan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-15 22:54:11 UTC

fixed by changing the order of the arguments in the script. 
not a tar issue at all, sorry.