From: Paul Eggert Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:37:09 +0000 (+0000) Subject: version 1.13.6 X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=911e926f4518c213e6587712c92e3158b83fcebf;p=chaz%2Ftar version 1.13.6 --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ba356fa..ece6739 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,30 +1,60 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. Copyright 1994, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +version 1.13.6 - Paul Eggert, 1999-08-11. + +* An --exclude pattern containing / now excludes a file only if it matches an + initial prefix of the file name; a pattern without / continues to + exclude a file if it maches any file name compoment. + +* The protocol for talking to rmt has been extended slightly. + Open flags are now communicated in symbolic format as well as numeric. + The symbolic format (e.g. "O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC" is for portability + when rmt is operating on a different operating system from tar. + The numeric format is retained, and rmt uses it if symbolic format is absent, + for backward compatibility with older versions of tar and rmt. + +* When writing GNU tar format headers, tar now uses signed base-64 + for values that cannot be represented in unsigned octal. + This supports larger files (2**66 - 1 bytes instead of 2**33 - 1 bytes), + larger uids, negative timestamps, etc. + +* When extracting files with unknown ownership, tar now looks up the + uid and gid "nobody" on hosts whose headers do not define UID_NOBODY + and GID_NOBODY, and falls back on uid/gid -2 if there is no "nobody". + +* tar -t --numeric-owner now prints numeric uids and gids, not symbolic. + +* New option -y or --bzip2 for bzip2 compression, by popular request. + + version 1.13.5 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20. * Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error. + version 1.13.4 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-20. * Do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given; this matches historical practice. -* Bug fixes. + version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16. * A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line. -* Bug fixes. + Also see 1.13.6 for later changes in this area. + version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14. * Bug reporting address changed to . -* Bug fixes. + version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12. -* Bug fixes. +* Bug fixes only. version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.