X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=380dc9670cf95388c59e789d268841adace41c64;hb=78b078b455b834695ebd3104ec3dbe8a4ac9f3a3;hp=95532bd0bf889bf9a8cc2f7f1d0957b995e9f308;hpb=075c726752d3a57b862a0d74ca6dfb7f4ea10c98;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 95532bd..380dc96 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,9 +1,4 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, -2004, 2005 -Free Software Foundation, Inc. -See the end for copying conditions. - Please send GNU tar bug reports to version 1.15.2 (CVS version -- unreleased) @@ -45,9 +40,23 @@ specified command. of recent Linux kernels to avoid some problems when preserving file access times. +* New option --delay-directory-restore delays restoring modification times +and permissions of extracted directories until the end of extraction. +This is necessary for restoring from archives with unusual member +ordering (in particular, those created with --no-recursion option). +This option is implied when restoring from incremental archives. + * New option --restrict prohibits use of some potentially harmful tar options. Currently it disables '!' escape in multi-volume name menu. +* New options --quoting-style and --quote-chars control the way tar +quotes member names on output. The --quoting-style takes an argument +specifying the quoting style to use (literal, shell, shell-always, +c, escape, locale, clocale). The argument to --quote-chars is a string +specifying characters to quote, even if the selected quoting style +would not quote them otherwise. The option --no-quote-chars is +provided to disable quoting certain characters. + * The end-of-volume script (introduced with --info-script option) can get current archive name from the environment variable TAR_ARCHIVE and the volume number from the variable TAR_VOLUME. It can alter the @@ -75,6 +84,14 @@ during reading. ** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents. ** Previous versions in certain cases failed to restore directory modification times. +** When creating an archive, do not attempt to store files whose +meta-data cannot be stored in the header due to format limitations +(for ustar and v7 formats). +** The --version option now also outputs information about copyright, +license, and credits. This reverts to the behavior of tar 1.14 and +earlier, and conforms to the GNU coding standards. The --license (-L) +option introduced in tar 1.15 has been removed, since it's no longer +needed. version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21 @@ -720,8 +737,8 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. -Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 -Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, +2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar.