X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1f610aadb04ff34e2b349ee4ee034374207b90fd;hb=0357ce33659fd0826f91b4c0949b3c614298cad4;hp=d15b038e1984027e5b3daae7806cbecfa729e5cb;hpb=6cd816fc83f03e864d950958cd1c90ace3718b4a;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d15b038..1f610aa 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,19 +1,83 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. -Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -version 1.12.lfs.3 - Paul Eggert, 1998-08. +version 1.13.7 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-14. -This version is an unofficial port of GNU `tar' 1.12 to Large File -Summit (LFS) environments like Solaris 2.6 that rely on integer system -types longer than `long'. Please send bug reports specific to this -unofficial version of GNU `tar' to . +* --listed-incremental and --newer are now incompatible options. -This is not intended to be a forked release for GNU tar; it's -just an interim experimental release, mostly intended for -Large File Summit hosts like Solaris 2.6. The patches of this -release have all been submitted via the usual channels and -they should no longer be needed once the next official release -of GNU tar is out. +* When creating an archive, leading `./' is no longer stripped, + to match traditional tar's behavior (and simplify the documentation). + +* --diff without --absolute-names no longer falls back on absolute names. + + +version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11. + +* An --exclude pattern containing / now excludes a file only if it matches an + initial prefix of the file name; a pattern without / continues to + exclude a file if it matches any file name compoment. + +* The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly. + Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric. + The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC" is for portability + when rmt is operating on a different operating system from tar. + The numeric format is retained, and rmt uses it if symbolic format is absent, + for backward compatibility with older versions of tar and rmt. + +* When writing GNU tar format headers, tar now uses signed base-64 + for values that cannot be represented in unsigned octal. + This supports larger files (2**66 - 1 bytes instead of 2**33 - 1 bytes), + larger uids, negative timestamps, etc. + +* When extracting files with unknown ownership, tar now looks up the + uid and gid "nobody" on hosts whose headers do not define UID_NOBODY + and GID_NOBODY, and falls back on uid/gid -2 if there is no "nobody". + +* tar -t --numeric-owner now prints numeric uids and gids, not symbolic. + +* New option -y or --bzip2 for bzip2 compression, by popular request. + + +version 1.13.5 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20. + +* Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error. + + +version 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20. + +* Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given; + this matches historical practice. + + +version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16. + +* A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an + excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line. + Also see 1.13.6 for later changes in this area. + + +version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14. + +* Bug reporting address changed to . + + +version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12. + +* Bug fixes only. + +version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08. + +* Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts. + Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc. +* Many bug fixes and porting fixes. +* This release is only for fixes. A more ambitious test release, + with new features, is available as part of the paxutils. Please see: + http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/ + The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils + at some point, but they haven't been merged yet. +* An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options, + but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils. + Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2. Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.