X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=1b051bdbdd53afb0c66aa33733d0f68abea9328a;hb=0500b1ba3e8a8e61149a314e67093696f5472f88;hp=e6182fb59c4e08b0173b09377c222dacceb2b8b3;hpb=81bf1687f8545d13ce428a8336489b0bd84703e5;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e6182fb..1b051bd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.13.93 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-02-24 +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 @@ -46,7 +46,25 @@ version 1.13.93 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-02-24 * --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. +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 + * Removed obsolete command line options: ** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names ** --block-compress is not needed any longer @@ -59,7 +77,7 @@ version 1.13.93 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-02-24 * New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian), hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional). - The code 'no' for Norwegian has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. + The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. * Bug fixes.