[BusyBox] tar and Broken pipe!

[Glenn McGrath]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:53:22 +0100
Steven Scholz <steven.scholz at imc-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I am playing 'round with the shell skript version of iPKG. The script
> ipgk contains a line:
> 
>        (cd $IPKG_TMP/$pkg/data/; tar cf - . | (cd $owd; cd $dest; tar
>        xf -))
> 
> used to copy the tree $IPKG_TMP/$pkg/data/ somewhere. But I do get a
> "Broken pipe" when using this (busybox v1.00-pre3, today's CVS).

> Any ideas?

I cant reproduce it here, but i have checked in a few fixes to tar in
the last few hours.

You could update to cvs and give it another go.

Im not sure if this bug is caused directly by tar, but maybe its old
behaviour was contributing to it, or maybe its ash ?



Glenn