* Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
-* Fix tar so that it can read and write POSIX.1-1990 tar archives.
+* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.
-* Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001 tar archives
- (along with technical corrections to the standard since 2001).
+* Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers,
+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.
This would unify paxutils with tar.
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. Somewhere
+ 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 tests for testing the added functonality.
+
+* Consider this:
+
+ From: Dennis Pund
+ Subject: TAR suggestion...
+ Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST)
+
+ What I would like to do is:
+
+ foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar
+
+ 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.