Bug#453096: [PATCH] file-roller: create tar when adding first file.

[Romain Francoise]

found 453096 2.22.0-3
thanks

Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> writes:

> This completely untested patch (I'm running on another codebase)
> should hopefully fix the problem by checking if the file exist,
> and if not use the -cf tar option instead of -rf (or -uf).

A similar patch was submitted upstream but as documented in
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487012#c6, it breaks
adding files to an existing archive (see comment #7 for the reason).
So I reverted it in version 2.22.0-3.

In the meantime, tar upstream installed a fix to avoid this issue,
reverting to tar 1.18's behavior:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2007-12/msg00001.html

Bdale, do you think you could apply this to Debian's tar package?

Thanks,
-- 
Romain Francoise <rfrancoise at debian.org>
http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/