[buildroot 0000592]: Passing the "j" option to tar causes /dev to be populated incorrectly.

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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=592 
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Reported By:                mikee
Assigned To:                uClibc
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Project:                    buildroot
Issue ID:                   592
Category:                   Other
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             12-09-2005 14:10 PST
Last Modified:              12-09-2005 18:33 PST
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Summary:                    Passing the "j" option to tar causes /dev to be
populated incorrectly.
Description: 
In the menuconfiguration, you can select to tar the root file system once
it is built. There is also a place to pass options to tar. If you pass the
'j' option (compress the archive using bzip2), the contents of the /dev/
folder will just be regular files instead of character devices and such.

Also, perhaps a test should be run on the options passed to tar and if 'z'
or 'j' are included, rename the end file to rootfs_xxx.tar.gz or
rootfs_xxx.tar.bz2.


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 vapier - 12-09-05 18:33  
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i'm pretty sure this is unrelated to tar at all

last i checked, the device nodes were always screwed up 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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12-09-05 14:10  mikee          New Issue                                    
12-09-05 14:10  mikee          Status                   new => assigned     
12-09-05 14:10  mikee          Assigned To               => uClibc          
12-09-05 18:33  vapier         Note Added: 0000756                          
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