X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b6b9340a839dafd29eafea94abbe56a2007d8aaa;hb=75bf036edc1425eb66dcc9623846c7204f943ce6;hp=f453c1ae25258c33200d2b44dabec1541e2e5e71;hpb=402b50d4d265544b70b22616b1a07627f1d2b570;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f453c1a..b6b9340 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.14.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, +version 1.14.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-09-02 * When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices @@ -17,8 +17,42 @@ would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the back up. This change fixes the bug. * Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with - the GNU convention. - +the GNU convention. + +* Skipping archive members is sped up if the archive media supports +seeks. + +* Restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option, +or some patterns. This is to prevent accidental restores. + +* `tar --verify' prints a warning if during archive creation some of +the file names had their prefixes stripped off. + +* New configure option --with-rmt allows to specify full path name to +the `rmt' utility. This supercedes DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable +introduced in version 1.14 + +* New configure variable DEFAULT_RMT_DIR allows to specify the directory +where to install `rmt' utility. This is necessary since modifying +--libexecdir as was suggested for version 1.14 produced a side effect: it +also modified installation prefix for backup scripts (if +--enable-backup-scripts was given). + +* Bugfixes: +** Fixed flow in recognizing files to be included in incremental dumps. +** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option. +** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters. +Do not allow multivolume archives to begin with such filenames. +** If a member with link count > 2 was stored in the archive twice, +previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they +were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and +lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first +extracted copy in such cases. +** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option. +** Fixed verification of the created archives. +** Fixed unquoting of the file names containing backslash escapes (previous +versions failed to recognize \a and \v). + version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11