X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=c9ba52cbff642d7f94afb607569d4360264ac1e7;hb=0037ae7f9e2cdf0fc0ab2d4197f236064dae3d2f;hp=f453c1ae25258c33200d2b44dabec1541e2e5e71;hpb=402b50d4d265544b70b22616b1a07627f1d2b570;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f453c1a..c9ba52c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,11 +1,48 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 +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 1.14.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, +version 1.15.2 (CVS version -- unreleased) + +* New features + +* Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in command line. +The file specified with -T may include any valid `tar' options, +including another -T option. +Compatibility note: older versions of tar would only recognize -C +as option name within the file list file. Now any file whose name +starts with - is handled as option. To insert file names starting with +dash, use --add-file option. + +* New option --no-unquote disables unquoting input file names. This +is useful e.g. for processing output from `find dir -print0'. +An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well. + +* Bugfixes + +** Allow non-option arguments to be interspersed with options. +** When extracting or listing archives in old GNU format, tar +used to read an extra block of data after a long name header +if length of the member name was divisible by block size (512). +Consequently, the file pointer was set off and the next member +was not processed correctly. + + +version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21 + +This version fixes a bug introduced in 1.15 which caused +tar to refuse to extract files from standard input. + + +version 1.15 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20 + +* Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no longer +necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. Thus, you can +now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'. * When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices @@ -17,8 +54,51 @@ 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 option --exclude-caches instructs tar to exclude cache directories +automatically on archive creation. Cache directories are those +containing a standardized tag file, as specified at: + + http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html + +* 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 (which +didn't affect the functionality, but was logically incorrect). +** Fixed verification of created archives. +** Fixed unquoting of file names containing backslash escapes (previous +versions failed to recognize \a and \v). +** When attempting to delete a non-existing member from the archive, previous +versions of tar used to overwrite last archive block with zeroes. + version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11