From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:03:23 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Updated X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c92c357a6277d7316fa688538991d25299f7b430;p=chaz%2Ftar Updated --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f68759c..10069dd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to version 1.13.26 +* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format. +* New option --format allows to select the output archive format +* The default output format can be selected at configuration time +by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT. +Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX. + * Bug fixes. * New options --index-file, --no-overwrite-dir. The --overwrite-dir diff --git a/README b/README index 1245220..6297ff1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ Besides those configure options documented in files `INSTALL' and operating system supports large files. Typically, large files are those larger on 2 GB on a 32-bit host. +The default archive format is GNU, this can be overridden by +presetting DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT while configuring. The allowed +values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX. + The default archive device is now `stdin' on read and `stdout' on write. The installer can still override this by presetting `DEFAULT_ARCHIVE' in the environment before configuring (the behavior of `-[0-7]' or diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index ce43a5c..e756ff3 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 (--sparse, --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 +30,26 @@ 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 an option to cut away the first N output path elements: + + From: Marc Haber + Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:55:31 +0200 + + some archives have members like + foo/bar + foo/baz + foo/bam + + When I now want to extract the three members bar, baz and bam to the + directory fom instead foo, I need to extract to foo and then to move + the files over manually. + + patch(1) solves that problem by offering an option taking the number + of path elements to cut away before using the path name. With an + option like that, the above problem could be solved with + + tar --extract --cut-path-elements 1 --directory fom + * Copyright notice