Fix `--test-label' and `--label -r' behavior.

[chaz/tar] / NEWS

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-10
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-11
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
+\f
+
+* --test-label behavior
+
+In case of a mismatch, `tar --test-label LABEL' exits with code 1,
+not 2 as it did in previous versions.
+
+The `--verbose' option used with `--test-label' provides additional
+diagnostics.
+
+Several volume labels may be specified in a command line, e.g.:
+
+   tar --test-label -f archive 'My volume' 'New volume' 'Test volume'
+
+In this case, tar exits with code 0 if any one of the arguments
+matches the actual volume label.
+
+* --label used with --update
+
+The `--label' option can be used with `--update' to prevent accidental
+update of an archive:
+
+  tar -rf archive --label 'My volume' .
+
+This did not work in previous versions, in spite of what the docs said.  
+
 \f
 version 1.23 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-03-10
 
@@ -694,7 +720,7 @@ tar.
 * New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian),
   hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk
   (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional).
-  The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
+  The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead.
 
 * Bug fixes.
 
@@ -1019,7 +1045,7 @@ version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
   but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
   Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.
 \f
-Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
+Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04.
 
 Sensitive matters
 * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions.
@@ -1062,7 +1088,7 @@ Various changes
 
 Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free.
 \f
-Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
+Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06.
 
 * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish.
 * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual.