[tar] tar: bugfix for creation of --posix --sparse tarballs
Pavel Raiskup
praiskup at fedoraproject.org
Fri Mar 1 10:54:34 UTC 2013
commit 87cdd4918ef137c27b1665ef3acfcdb1f8ccad14
Author: Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com>
Date: Fri Mar 1 11:49:55 2013 +0100
tar: bugfix for creation of --posix --sparse tarballs
GNU tar failed to create posix archives containing sparse files of effective
size (real size stored on the disk) >8GB.
Version: 2:1.26-19
Resolves: #516309
tar-1.26-pax-big-sparse-files.patch | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tar.spec | 13 ++++++-
2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/tar-1.26-pax-big-sparse-files.patch b/tar-1.26-pax-big-sparse-files.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be72dfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tar-1.26-pax-big-sparse-files.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
+index 8aeae33..8f3c416 100644
+--- a/NEWS
++++ b/NEWS
+@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
+ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2012-11-19
+ Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar at gnu.org>
+
++** Sparse files with large data
++
++When creating a PAX-format archive, tar no longer arbitrarily restricts
++the size of the representation of a sparse file to be less than 8 GiB.
++
+
+ version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12
+
+-* Bugfixes
++* Bug fixes
+
+ ** Fix the --verify option, which broke in version 1.24.
+
+diff --git a/src/sparse.c b/src/sparse.c
+index 4b2f982..cfd0c66 100644
+--- a/src/sparse.c
++++ b/src/sparse.c
+@@ -919,6 +919,18 @@ pax_sparse_member_p (struct tar_sparse_file *file)
+ || file->stat_info->sparse_major > 0;
+ }
+
++/* Start a header that uses the effective (shrunken) file size. */
++static union block *
++pax_start_header (struct tar_stat_info *st)
++{
++ off_t realsize = st->stat.st_size;
++ union block *blk;
++ st->stat.st_size = st->archive_file_size;
++ blk = start_header (st);
++ st->stat.st_size = realsize;
++ return blk;
++}
++
+ static bool
+ pax_dump_header_0 (struct tar_sparse_file *file)
+ {
+@@ -968,9 +980,7 @@ pax_dump_header_0 (struct tar_sparse_file *file)
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+- blk = start_header (file->stat_info);
+- /* Store the effective (shrunken) file size */
+- OFF_TO_CHARS (file->stat_info->archive_file_size, blk->header.size);
++ blk = pax_start_header (file->stat_info);
+ finish_header (file->stat_info, blk, block_ordinal);
+ if (save_file_name)
+ {
+@@ -1035,9 +1045,7 @@ pax_dump_header_1 (struct tar_sparse_file *file)
+ if (strlen (file->stat_info->file_name) > NAME_FIELD_SIZE)
+ file->stat_info->file_name[NAME_FIELD_SIZE] = 0;
+
+- blk = start_header (file->stat_info);
+- /* Store the effective (shrunken) file size */
+- OFF_TO_CHARS (file->stat_info->archive_file_size, blk->header.size);
++ blk = pax_start_header (file->stat_info);
+ finish_header (file->stat_info, blk, block_ordinal);
+ free (file->stat_info->file_name);
+ file->stat_info->file_name = save_file_name;
diff --git a/tar.spec b/tar.spec
index 6ed40ef..f4142d6 100644
--- a/tar.spec
+++ b/tar.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Summary: A GNU file archiving program
Name: tar
Epoch: 2
Version: 1.26
-Release: 18%{?dist}
+Release: 19%{?dist}
License: GPLv3+
Group: Applications/Archiving
URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ Patch10: tar-1.26-xattrs.patch
# ~> upstream (it is part of df7b55a8f6354e)
Patch11: tar-1.26-posix-biguid.patch
+# Allow store sparse files of effective size >8GB into pax archives
+# ~> #516309
+# ~> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2013-01/msg00001.html
+# ~> already upstream (2f6c03cba)
+Patch12: tar-1.26-pax-big-sparse-files.patch
+
# run "make check" by default
%bcond_without check
@@ -118,6 +124,7 @@ the rmt package.
%patch9 -p1 -b .selinux-gnulib-prep
%patch10 -p1 -b .xattrs-selinux-acls
%patch11 -p1 -b .big_uid_gid
+%patch12 -p1 -b .pax-sparse-big-files
autoreconf -v
@@ -180,6 +187,10 @@ fi
%{_infodir}/tar.info*
%changelog
+* Fri Mar 01 2013 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com> - 2:1.26-19
+- fix creating sparse pax archives containing files of effective
+ size >8GB (#516309)
+
* Wed Feb 20 2013 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com> - 2:1.26-18
- fix problems with big uids/gids and pax format (> 2^21) (#913406)
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