* Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
+* Add support for restoring file time stamps to sub-second resolution,
+ if the file system supports this.
+
+* Add support for restoring the attributes of symbolic links, for
+ OSes like FreeBSD that have the lutimes and lchmod functions.
+
+* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.
+
* Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers,
-so that the GNU extensions (--sparse, --incremental, --label and
+so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and
--multi-volume) may be used with POSIX archives.
* Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved.
(GNU tar --check-links option)
- Perhaps we could announce a phase-in period where "l" changes in semantics.
- In the meanwhile we could make the "l" semantics to be determined by the
- value of POSIXLY_CORRECT variable.
+ Currently tar prints a warning when this option is used. Sometime
+ in the future its semantics will be changed to that of --check-links.
+ In the meanwhile we should announce a phase-in period where "l"
+ changes in semantics.
* Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation.
It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
-* Add an option to cut away the first N output path elements:
+* Add tests for the new functonality.
- From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:55:31 +0200
+* Consider this:
- some archives have members like
- foo/bar
- foo/baz
- foo/bam
-
- When I now want to extract the three members bar, baz and bam to the
- directory fom instead foo, I need to extract to foo and then to move
- the files over manually.
+ From: Dennis Pund
+ Subject: TAR suggestion...
+ Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST)
- patch(1) solves that problem by offering an option taking the number
- of path elements to cut away before using the path name. With an
- option like that, the above problem could be solved with
+ What I would like to do is:
- tar --extract --cut-path-elements 1 --directory fom
+ foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar
-\f
+ where 'foo' is a program that retrieves the archive and streams it
+ to stdout and bar is a program that streams the stdin to CDR.
+
+ (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html)
+
+\f
* Copyright notice
- Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU tar.