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  • From: Ondra Tomecka <otom7630 AT lucy.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] Upgrade to tar 1.13.92 (testing grimoire)
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:30:20 +0100 (CET)

My bad, seems it is already downgraded in test grimoire. However someone
else than me may possibly hit test grimoire with tar 1.13.92 and is going
to upgrade to 1.13.92, so this poor person: don't do that ;-)

Andy

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Ondra Tomecka wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just noticed very serious trouble with tar 1.13.92: it seems not to
> understand option --no-recursion, which causes big troubles when cast
> creates spell cache. Many spells want to add /usr directory to the cache,
> and as tar ignores --no-recursion, it adds WHOLE CONTENTS of /usr instead
> only directory itself. So when you cast more spells with one command, all
> the hell may break loose and you end up with disk full of corrupted spell
> caches which contain only part of /usr directory and nothing of the spell
> itself. Trying to do sorcery rebuild would most probably end in total mess
> with this tar...
>
> Just to let all of you know, I already filled bug for this.
>
> Hope this will prevent some disasters ;-)
> Andy
>
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