Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
-* Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
+* <45BEC0DB.8040903@unix-beratung.de>
-* 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.
+* Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
-* Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
- This would unify paxutils with tar.
+* Add support for restoring file time stamps to sub-second resolution,
+ if the file system supports this.
-* Remove command-line incompatibilities between GNU tar and UNIX tar
- as specified by UNIX98. The main problem is:
+* Add support for restoring the attributes of symbolic links, for
+ OSes like FreeBSD that have the lutimes and lchmod functions.
- l GNU tar doesn't cross filesystem boundaries.
- UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved.
- (GNU tar --check-links option)
+* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.
- 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.
+* Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
+ This would unify paxutils with tar.
* 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.
+* Add tests for the new functonality.
* Consider this:
(http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html)
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* Copyright notice
- Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 2003-2004, 2007, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- This file is part of GNU tar.
+This file is part of GNU tar.
- GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- any later version.
+GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
- GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
+GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
- the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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