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sr #109666: 3.9 Controlling Warning Messages (missing option/feature request)

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Submitted:  Mon 01 Apr 2019 05:36:44 PM UTC
   
 
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Mon 01 Apr 2019 07:10:38 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I'm adding a NOT patch file which does (I hope) what I mean.  It was either that, or `emacs` the executable, which seemed over-the-top.

N.B.: I'm not recommending these exact changes.  The errors in question come from `libtar.a` which doesn't include `common.h`, so I recklessly put the necessary `#define` statements.  I'm only including the `patch` so you can use it for reference.


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Erik Bennett <erikb495>
Mon 01 Apr 2019 05:36:44 PM UTC, original submission:  


Surely I can't be the first person to request an additional option to suppress the fantastically annoying "tar: Removing leading `/' from member names" messages.

I'm guessing something in --warning=keyword as described in section "3.9 Controlling Warning Messages".

What stuns me is that this wasn't the first warning added when the option was introduced.

Thanks for your consideration.

-Erik

p.s. Using `-C /` isn't an option since I'm doing backups, and by definition, my tar statement includes an absolute path.

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file #46692:  notReallyAPatchFile added by erikb495 (2KiB - application/octet-stream - A patch to serve as a sugestion. Just read it. Don't apply it.)

 

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