X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=308da9b7ad25f22e7bc0e5c1dcc3a09e3d5ff970;hb=8d6e47cc7fcfb6781b82ba60b8eb823c7fdc7013;hp=5102aa9776e5ea97f81ed4c8df5f94a2631b237d;hpb=cab627b49d8bd70f1db89ff1bab6b40f0fe69e2e;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5102aa9..308da9b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,7 +6,15 @@ See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.13.26 +version 1.13.90 + +* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format. +* 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. * Bug fixes. @@ -14,32 +22,39 @@ version 1.13.26 option is now the default; use --no-overwrite-dir if you prefer the previous default behavior. -* New message translations en_GB (British English), 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 The code 'no' for Norwegian has been - withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.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 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. + 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. + 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. * Removed obsolete command line options: -** --absolute-paths superseeded by --absolute-names +** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names ** --block-compress is not needed any longer -** --block-size superseeded by --blocking--factor -** --modification-time superseeded by --touch -** --read-full-blocks supeseeded by --read-full-records -** --record-number superseeded by --block-number -** --version-control superseeded by --backup +** --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 has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26 @@ -155,7 +170,7 @@ 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 @@ -546,3 +561,8 @@ 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: