X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ffeb4b844a5242381a323fa98c08b4bb4b1af787;hb=f6c25db5fef8f1e82c7a9e87ed42d311cb1bcb32;hp=749bb3bf916233ccfa7c2193a1f340d9e1be6cbf;hpb=383701a590cdefd47bebbe6ed87c0562f5dbb011;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 749bb3b..ffeb4b8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,15 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2012-11-19 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-10-05 Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.26.90 (Git) +version 1.27 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-10-05 + +* Bug fixes + +** Sparse files with large data + +When creating a PAX-format archive, tar no longer arbitrarily restricts +the size of the representation of a sparse file to be less than 8 GiB. * Quoting @@ -11,9 +18,7 @@ adjusted to quote 'like this' (with apostrophes) instead of `like this' (with an accent grave character and an apostrophe). This tracks recent changes to the GNU coding standards. -* New features - -** --owner and --group names and numbers +* --owner and --group names and numbers The --owner and --group options now accept operands of the form NAME:NUM, so that you can specify both symbolic name and numeric ID @@ -45,6 +50,43 @@ Additionally, the options --xattrs-include and --xattrs-exclude allow you to selectively control for which files to store (or extract) the extended attributes. +* Passing command line arguments to external commands. + +Any option taking a command name as its argument now accepts a full +command line as well. Thus, it is now possible to pass additional +arguments to invoked programs. The affected options are: + + --checkpoint-action=exec + -I, --use-compress-program + -F, --info-script + --to-command + +Furthermore, if any additional information is supplied to such a +command via environment variables, these variables can now be used in +the command line itself. Care should be taken to escape them, to +prevent from being expanded too early, for example: + + tar -x -f a.tar --info-script='changevol $TAR_ARCHIVE $TAR_VOLUME' + +* New configure option --enable-gcc-warnings, intended for debugging. + +* New warning control option --warning=[no-]record-size + +On extraction, this option controls whether to display actual record +size, if it differs from the default. + +* New command line option --keep-directory-symlink + +By default, if trying to extract a directory from the archive, +tar discovers that the corresponding file name already exists and is a +symbolic link, it first unlinks the entry, and then extracts the directory. + +This option disables this behavior and instructs tar to follow +symlinks to directories when extracting from the archive. + +It is mainly intended to provide compatibility with the Slackware +installation scripts. + version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12 @@ -1383,15 +1425,14 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. -Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, -2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar. GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) -any later version. +the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of @@ -1399,9 +1440,7 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 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., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, -Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. +along with this program. If not, see . Local variables: mode: outline