X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=f440a08d585b939a6599419a2c5767762004d21b;hb=afcdb894920d2a2ba34a6a1fcf6f57d6490a804f;hp=ce43a5ce29137ba2916b5b44ac94166ba62aea01;hpb=4d0ac610b012067ac197206ce7ed203ca069ef09;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index ce43a5c..f440a08 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,26 +1,20 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar. +* <45BEC0DB.8040903@unix-beratung.de> + * 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 restoring file time stamps to sub-second resolution, + if the file system supports this. + +* Add support for restoring the attributes of symbolic links, for + OSes like FreeBSD that have the lutimes and lchmod functions. -* Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001 tar archives - (along with technical corrections to the standard since 2001). +* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types. * Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001. This would unify paxutils with tar. -* Remove command-line incompatibilities between GNU tar and UNIX tar - as specified by UNIX98. The main problem is: - - l GNU tar doesn't cross filesystem boundaries. - UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved. - (GNU tar --check-links option) - - Perhaps we could announce a phase-in period where "l" changes in semantics. - In the meanwhile we could make the "l" semantics to be determined by the - value of POSIXLY_CORRECT variable. - * Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation. * Add an option to remove files that compare successfully. @@ -31,16 +25,33 @@ 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 the new 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 - Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2007 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 2, or (at your option) + the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, @@ -50,8 +61,8 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar. 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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, - Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. + the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, + Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. Local variables: