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tar: dot: unknown checkpoint action

Bug #328140 reported by Vítor E. Silva Souza
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: tar

This page describes the exact problem:

http://www.nabble.com/-Patch--tar-1.20---checkpoint.c-td19819488.html

Check the tar man page to see that the option --checkpoint-action=dot is supposed to be accepted by tar.

vitor@seattle:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

vitor@seattle:~$ uname -a
Linux seattle 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

vitor@seattle:~$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.20
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

vitor@seattle:~$ apt-cache policy tar
tar:
  Installed: 1.20-1
  Candidate: 1.20-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.20-1 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Revision history for this message
Jonathan Reed (jdreed) wrote :

This bug is present in Jaunty too. Can this get fixed or can the man page be updated?

jdreed@infinite-loop:~$ tar --checkpoint=100 --checkpoint-action=dot -xf somefile.tar
tar: dot: unknown checkpoint action
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

From the man page:

   --checkpoint-action
          this action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hit‐
          ting a checkpoint. Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the
          default) ...

jdreed@infinite-loop:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

jdreed@infinite-loop:~$ uname -a
Linux infinite-loop 2.6.28-14-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 00:28:35 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

jdreed@infinite-loop:~$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.20
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

jdreed@infinite-loop:~$ apt-cache policy tar
tar:
  Installed: 1.20-1
  Candidate: 1.20-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.20-1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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