X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e0473c78c71bc90f24522cd42316ec2ec67499f5;hb=023c766600a4c2565455e5cfdd5820eb24fa7776;hp=dd451833f17ad13b011f3222524821ea7a133eef;hpb=7214086d3d19a440719f6319cf473660ab1dad30;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index dd45183..e0473c7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,22 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, (CVS version) +version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21 + +* After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were +changed while being read. Previous versions exited with code 2 (fatal +error), and only if some files were truncated while being archived. + +* New option --mtime allows to set modification times for all archive +members during creation. + +* Bug fixes +** Avoid running off file descriptors when using multiple -C options. +** tar --index-file=FILE --file=- sent the archive to FILE, and +the listing to stderr. + + +version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-06-16 * Incompatible changes @@ -74,11 +89,20 @@ for example, while comparing `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs. ** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names as well as that about directories. -** Option --checkpoint takes an optional argument specifying the number +** The --checkpoint option takes an optional argument specifying the number of records between the two successive checkpoints. Optional dot starting the argument intructs tar to print dots instead of textual checkpoints. +** The --totals option can be used with any tar operation (previous versions +understood it only with --create). If an argument to this option is +given, it specifies the signal upon delivery of which the statistics +is to be printed. Both forms of this option (with and without +argument) can be given to in a single invocation of tar. + +* Bug fixes +** Detect attempts to update compressed archives. + version 1.15.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-02-19