Strange listed incremental behavior under solaris

[matt]

Greetings again,  

Under solaris8, Tar compiled from source with standard options, (this
problem does not happen under linux) 

{
$ /usr/local/bin/gtar --version 
tar (GNU tar) 1.13
}

... When attempting a restore from a gnu listed incremental... 



{
$ /usr/local/bin/gtar -g sysbak-nop-var-snapshot.0  -tvzf
sysbak-nop-var-0-20030101-093756.gli.tar.gz  |head
V--------- 0/0               0 2003-01-01 09:37
VOLUME-LABEL:sysbak-nop-var-0-20030101-093756--Volume Header--
drwxr-xr-x root/sys        182 2002-10-16 14:59 07604576507/var/
Dadmdrwxrwxr-x root/sys        166 2002-12-29 03:10 07604576507/var/adm/
Dacctdrwxrwxr-x adm/adm          20 2002-10-16 14:25
07604576507/var/adm/acct/
Dfiscaldrwxrwxr-x adm/adm           1 2002-10-16 14:25
07604576510/var/adm/acct/fiscal/
drwxrwxr-x adm/adm           1 2002-10-16 14:25
07604576510/var/adm/acct/nite/
drwxrwxr-x adm/adm           1 2002-10-16 14:25
07604576510/var/adm/acct/sum/
drwxr-xr-x adm/adm           1 2002-10-16 14:22
07604576510/var/adm/exacct/
drwxr-xr-x adm/adm           1 2002-10-16 14:22 07604576510/var/adm/log/
drwxr-xr-x adm/adm           1 2002-10-16 14:22
07604576510/var/adm/passwd/
}

... And without the -g SNAPSHOT-FILE...

{
$ /usr/local/bin/gtar -tvzf sysbak-nop-var-0-20030101-093756.gli.tar.gz 
|head
V--------- 0/0               0 2003-01-01 09:37
VOLUME-LABEL:sysbak-nop-var-0-20030101-093756--Volume Header--
drwxr-xr-x root/sys        182 2002-10-16 14:59 07604576507/var/
drwxrwxr-x root/sys        166 2002-12-29 03:10 07604576507/var/adm/
drwxrwxr-x adm/adm          20 2002-10-16 14:25
07604576507/var/adm/acct/
drwxrwxr-x adm/adm           1 2002-10-16 14:25
07604576510/var/adm/acct/fiscal/
drwxrwxr-x adm/adm           1 2002-10-16 14:25
07604576510/var/adm/acct/nite/
drwxrwxr-x adm/adm           1 2002-10-16 14:25
07604576510/var/adm/acct/sum/
drwxr-xr-x adm/adm           1 2002-10-16 14:22
07604576510/var/adm/exacct/
drwxr-xr-x adm/adm           1 2002-10-16 14:22 07604576510/var/adm/log/
drwxr-xr-x adm/adm           1 2002-10-16 14:22
07604576510/var/adm/passwd/
}

It looks like some metadata is being improperly restored, if i attempt
an extract, the numbered toplevel 
directories get created as above.   

Sorta looks like gtar isnt "getting" the fact that its a
--listed-incremental style archive, for instance, using solaris's
bundled tar:

{
$ gunzip  -c sysbak-nop-var-0-20030101-093756.gli.tar.gz |/bin/tar  -tvf
- |head
----------   0/0        0 Jan  1 09:37 2003
VOLUME-LABEL:sysbak-nop-var-0-20030101-093756
drwxr-xr-x   0/3      182 Oct 16 14:59 2002 07604576507/var/
drwxrwxr-x   0/3      166 Dec 29 03:10 2002 07604576507/var/adm/
drwxrwxr-x   4/4       20 Oct 16 14:25 2002 07604576507/var/adm/acct/
drwxrwxr-x   4/4        1 Oct 16 14:25 2002
07604576510/var/adm/acct/fiscal/
drwxrwxr-x   4/4        1 Oct 16 14:25 2002
07604576510/var/adm/acct/nite/
drwxrwxr-x   4/4        1 Oct 16 14:25 2002
07604576510/var/adm/acct/sum/
drwxr-xr-x   4/4        1 Oct 16 14:22 2002 07604576510/var/adm/exacct/
drwxr-xr-x   4/4        1 Oct 16 14:22 2002 07604576510/var/adm/log/
drwxr-xr-x   4/4        1 Oct 16 14:22 2002 07604576510/var/adm/passwd/
}


Any ideas?  Please let me know if you need more info. I _have_ googled
for this problem and found no clues... 

Thanks in advance...
-Matt


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