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-version 1.13.94 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-04-04
+version 1.14.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, <DATE>
+
+* When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option
+prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices
+from being purged.
+
+With the previous versions of tar it was dangerous to create
+incremental dumps with --one-file-system option, since they
+would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the
+back up. This change fixes the bug.
+
+* Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with
+ the GNU convention.
+
+* Skipping archive members is sped up.
+
+* restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option,
+or some patterns. This is to prevent accidental restores.
+
+* Bugfixes:
+** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option
+** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters.
+Do not allow multivolume archives to begin with such filenames.
+** If a member with link count > 2 was stored in the archive twice,
+previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they
+were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and
+lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first
+extracted copy in such cases.
+** restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option.
+** Fixed verification of the created archives.
+
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+version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11
* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 and ustar archive formats.
* New option --format allows to select the output archive format
* --incremental and --listed-incremental options work correctly on
individual files, as well as on directories.
-* New scripts: backup (replaces old level-0 and level-1) and restore
+* New scripts: backup (replaces old level-0 and level-1) and restore.
+The scripts are compiled and installed if --enable-backup-scripts
+option is given to configure.
+
+* By default tar searches "rmt" utility in "$prefix/libexec/rmt",
+which is consistent with the location where the version of "rmt"
+included in the package is installed. Previous versions of tar
+used "/etc/rmt". To install "rmt" to its traditional location,
+run configure with option --libexecdir=/etc. Otherwise, if you
+already have rmt installed and wish to use it, instead of the
+shipped in version, set the variable DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND to
+the full path name of the utility, e.g. ./configure
+DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND=/etc/rmt.
+
+Notice also that the full path name of the "rmt" utility to
+use can be set at runtime, by giving option --rmt-command to
+tar.
* Removed obsolete command line options:
** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names
* Bug fixes.
+\f
version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26
* Bug fixes.
+\f
version 1.13.24 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-22
* New option --overwrite-dir.
* Fixes for buffer overrun, porting, and copyright notice problems.
* The message translations for Korean are available again.
+\f
version 1.13.23 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-13
* Bug, porting, and copyright notice fixes.
+\f
version 1.13.22 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-29
* Bug fixes.
+\f
version 1.13.21 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-28
* Porting and copyright notice fixes.
+\f
version 1.13.20 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-27
* Some bugs were fixed:
The translation for Korean has been withdrawn due to encoding errors.
It will be reissued once those are fixed.
+\f
version 1.13.19 - Paul Eggert, 2001-01-13
* The -I option has been withdrawn, as it was buggy and confusing.
* With an option like -N DATE, if DATE starts with "/" or ".", it is taken
to be a file name; the last-modified time of that file is used as the date.
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version 1.13.18 - Paul Eggert, 2000-10-29
* Some security problems have been fixed. `tar -x' now modifies only
* `tar --delete -f -' now works again.
+\f
version 1.13.17 - Paul Eggert, 2000-01-07.
* `tar --delete -f -' is no longer allowed; it was too buggy.
* Diagnostic messages have been made more regular and consistent.
+\f
version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13.
* By default, tar now refuses to overwrite an existing file when
* tar now ignores socket files when creating an archive.
Previously tar archived sockets as fifos, which caused problems.
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version 1.13.15 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-03.
* If a file's ctime changes when being archived, report an error.
Previously tar looked at mtime, which missed some errors.
+\f
version 1.13.14 - Paul Eggert, 1999-11-07.
* New translations ja, pt_BR.
* New options --help and --version for rmt.
* Ignore Solaris door files when creating an archive.
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version 1.13.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-10-11.
* Invalid headers in tar files now elicit errors, not just warnings.
* If you specify an invalid date, `tar' now substitutes (time_t) -1.
* `configure --with-dmalloc' is no longer available.
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version 1.13.12 - Paul Eggert, 1999-09-24.
* `tar' now supports hard links to symbolic links.
* Some diagnostics have been reworded for consistency.
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version 1.13.11 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-23.
* The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -I,
numeric UTC offsets like `-0500' instead of abbreviations like
`EST', as abbreviations are not standardized and are ambiguous.
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version 1.13.10 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-20.
* `tar' now uses signed base-64 when outputting header values that are
out of the range of the standard unsigned base-8 format. [This
change was superseded in 1.13.12, described above.]
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version 1.13.9 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-18.
* `tar' now writes two zero blocks at end-of-archive instead of just one.
* `tar' now reads buggy tar files that have a null byte at the start of a
numeric header field.
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version 1.13.8 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-16.
* For compatibility with traditional `tar', intermediate directories
created automatically by root are no longer given the uid and gid of
the original file or directory.
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version 1.13.7 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-14.
* --listed-incremental and --newer are now incompatible options.
* --diff without --absolute-names no longer falls back on absolute names.
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version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11.
* An --exclude pattern containing / now excludes a file only if it matches an
* New option -y or --bzip2 for bzip2 compression, by popular request.
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version 1.13.5 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
* Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error.
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version 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20.
* Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given;
this matches historical practice.
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version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16.
* A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an
excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line.
Also see 1.13.6 for later changes in this area.
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version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
* Bug reporting address changed to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
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version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
* Bug fixes only.
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