X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1b051bdbdd53afb0c66aa33733d0f68abea9328a;hb=0500b1ba3e8a8e61149a314e67093696f5472f88;hp=6063019ca739f95d8ae64c4062f96c12fca16f6c;hpb=e8fa866d3aea72aec2cce8940bfbde6082fb1f46;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6063019..1b051bd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.13.94 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-04-04 +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 @@ -54,10 +54,16 @@ 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". The full path name to the "rmt" utility may -be overridden either while configuring the package, by setting -DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable, or on runtime, by giving option ---rmt-command to 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 * Removed obsolete command line options: ** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names