X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=a7343d80a08fa9c3da285401f5c8a952c6b90316;hb=640effdebd564a59ba31772316e5d9b9329491f3;hp=ce43a5ce29137ba2916b5b44ac94166ba62aea01;hpb=4d0ac610b012067ac197206ce7ed203ca069ef09;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index ce43a5c..a7343d8 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar. * Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux. -* Fix tar so that it can read and write POSIX.1-1990 tar archives. - -* Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001 tar archives - (along with technical corrections to the standard since 2001). +* Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers, +so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and +--multi-volume) may be used with POSIX archives. * Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001. This would unify paxutils with tar. @@ -31,6 +30,23 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar. It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff', to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup. +* Add tests for testing the added functonality. + +* Consider this: + + From: Dennis Pund + Subject: TAR suggestion... + Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST) + + What I would like to do is: + + foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar + + where 'foo' is a program that retrieves the archive and streams it + to stdout and bar is a program that streams the stdin to CDR. + + (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html) + * Copyright notice