tar not reporting directory name ?

tar not reporting directory name ?

[Marco Atzeri]

Hi Guys,
following a discussion on
https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/package-releases/254/

on http://matzeri.altervista.org/works/octave/doesnt/
I uploaded a tar file that on cygwin do not
report the directories entry

$ tar -tf generate_html-0.1.11.tar.gz
generate_html.0.1.11/COPYING
generate_html.0.1.11/DESCRIPTION
generate_html.0.1.11/INDEX
generate_html.0.1.11/NEWS
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/generate_html_manual.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/generate_operators.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/generate_package_html.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/get_html_options.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/html_help_text.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/private/find_package.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/private/get_alpha_database.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/private/get_feature.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/private/get_header_title_and_footer.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/private/get_root.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/private/get_texi_conf.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/private/get_txi_files.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/private/html_see_also_with_prefix.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/private/insert_char_entities.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/private/octave_forge_seealso.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/texi2html.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/txi2index.m
generate_html.0.1.11/inst/txi2reference.m

The packager uses tar-1.28-2.2 on Debian stretch,
and it reports for him the directory entries.

Any clue what is causing such discrepancy on cygwin ?
I am reasonable sure that is a recent change in behaviour as the 
previous file version that have the same structure gave
me no headache in the past.

Of course if I unpack and repack the tar file, the directory are
as expected reported

http://matzeri.altervista.org/works/octave/works/tar-content.txt


Regards
Marco

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Re: tar not reporting directory name ?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 01/06/2016 16:19, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> following a discussion on
> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/package-releases/254/
>

scrap it . I found the root cause and it is unrelated to tar.

Regards
MArco

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Re: tar not reporting directory name ?

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 01.06.2016 um 17:02 schrieb Marco Atzeri:
> On 01/06/2016 16:19, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>> following a discussion on
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/package-releases/254/
>>
>
> scrap it . I found the root cause and it is unrelated to tar.
But you've made use curious; what was it?

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Re: tar not reporting directory name ?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 01/06/2016 20:01, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 01.06.2016 um 17:02 schrieb Marco Atzeri:
>> On 01/06/2016 16:19, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>> following a discussion on
>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/package-releases/254/
>>>
>>
>> scrap it . I found the root cause and it is unrelated to tar.
> But you've made use curious; what was it?
>

change in behaviour of octave trunk version,
that I backported for other reason to cygwin 4.0.2 package.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2016-06/msg00001.html

So I hit myself before anyone notice the same..

Regards
Marco


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