X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1b051bdbdd53afb0c66aa33733d0f68abea9328a;hb=0500b1ba3e8a8e61149a314e67093696f5472f88;hp=a44e288065382dd761b3ee8870e4f6bccf1e18f2;hpb=622724a8867f1b83fedad961fa9b45020ed01edb;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a44e288..1b051bd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,85 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 +Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end for copying conditions. + +Please send GNU tar bug reports to + + +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 +* The default output format can be selected at configuration time + by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT. + Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX. +* New option --strip-path allows to cut off a given number of + path elements from the name of the file being extracted. + +* New options --index-file, --no-overwrite-dir. The --overwrite-dir + option is now the default; use --no-overwrite-dir if you prefer + the previous default behavior. + +* The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it + does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible + with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of + --old-archive option. This latter is deprecated and will be removed + in future. + +* New option --check-links prints a message if not all links are dumped + for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option. + The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility + with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as + the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases. + +* New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of + the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of + files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This + option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurrence of each named + file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurrence filename' + extracts the first occurrence of `filename' from `archive' + and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive. + +* New option --pax-option allows to control the handling of POSIX + keywords in `pax' extended headers. It is equivalent to `pax' + -o option. + +* --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 +** --block-size superseded by --blocking-factor +** --modification-time superseded by --touch +** --read-full-blocks superseded by --read-full-records +** --record-number superseded by --block-number +** --version-control superseded by --backup + +* 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 (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. + +* Bug fixes. version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26 @@ -8,6 +89,7 @@ version 1.13.24 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-22 * New option --overwrite-dir. * Fixes for buffer overrun, porting, and copyright notice problems. +* The message translations for Korean are available again. version 1.13.23 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-13 @@ -113,7 +195,7 @@ version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13. To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option. * Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS) - correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibytes. + correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibyte characters. * The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about @@ -485,8 +567,8 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. -Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free -Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 +Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar. @@ -504,3 +586,8 @@ 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. + +Local variables: +mode: outline +paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" +end: