X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?p=chaz%2Ftar;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=3f63ed79a850d954cd454b1f283f3b7cfc48253a;hp=29b4486a0c573ca072cc9ff395d6e20913799c97;hb=576e99a21c566598d7a701142e439cb283cac24f;hpb=2f6c03cba298eaa46a6e18500c0ab17d35a00a23 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 29b4486..3f63ed7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,88 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-01-26 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-03-27 Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.26.90 (Git) +version 1.27.90 (Git) + +* New checkpoint action: totals + +The --checkpoint-action=totals option instructs tar to output the +total number of bytes transferred at each checkpoint. + +* Extended checkpoint format specification. + +New conversion specifiers are implemented. Some of them take +optional arguments, supplied in curly braces between the percent +sign and the specifier letter. + + %d - Number of seconds since tar started. + %{r,w,d}T - I/O totals; optional arguments supply prefixes + to be used before number of bytes read, written and + deleted, correspondingly. + %{FMT}t - Current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format. + If {FMT} is omitted, use %c. + %{N}* - Pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the + current screen width, if {N} is not given. + %c - A shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r" + +* New option --one-top-level + +The option --one-top-level tells tar to extract all files into a +subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus standard +compression suffixes recognizable by --auto-compress). When used with +an argument, as in --one-top-level=DIR, the files are extracted into the +supplied DIRectory. This ensures that no archive members are +extracted outside of the specified directory, even if the archive is +crafted so as to put them elsewhere. + +* New option --sort + +The --sort=ORDER option instructs tar to sort directory entries +according to ORDER. It takes effect when creating archives. +Available ORDERs are: none (the default), name and inode. The +latter may be absent, if the underlying system does not provide +the necessary information. + +Using --sort=name ensures the member ordering in the created archive +is uniform and reproducible. Using --sort=inode reduces the number +of disk seeks made when creating the archive and thus can considerably +speed up archivation. + +* New exclusion options + + --exclude-ignore=FILE Before dumping a directory check if it + contains FILE, and if so read exclude + patterns for this directory from FILE. + --exclude-ignore-recursive=FILE + Same as above, but the exclusion patterns + read from FILE remain in effect for any + subdirectory, recursively. + --exclude-vcs-ignores Read exclude tags from VCS ignore files, + where such files exist. Supported VCS's + are: CVS, Git, Bazaar, Mercurial. + + +* Tar refuses to read input from and write output to a tty device. + +* Manpages + +This release includes official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages. +Distribution maintainers are kindly asked to use these instead of the +home-made pages they provided so far. + + +version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17 + +* Bug fixes + +* Fix unquoting of file names obtained via the -T option. + +* Fix GNU long link header timestamp (backward compatibility). + +* Fix extracting sparse members from star archives. + + +version 1.27 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-10-05 * Bug fixes @@ -50,8 +130,43 @@ Additionally, the options --xattrs-include and --xattrs-exclude allow you to selectively control for which files to store (or extract) the extended attributes. +* Passing command line arguments to external commands. + +Any option taking a command name as its argument now accepts a full +command line as well. Thus, it is now possible to pass additional +arguments to invoked programs. The affected options are: + + --checkpoint-action=exec + -I, --use-compress-program + -F, --info-script + --to-command + +Furthermore, if any additional information is supplied to such a +command via environment variables, these variables can now be used in +the command line itself. Care should be taken to escape them, to +prevent from being expanded too early, for example: + + tar -x -f a.tar --info-script='changevol $TAR_ARCHIVE $TAR_VOLUME' + * New configure option --enable-gcc-warnings, intended for debugging. +* New warning control option --warning=[no-]record-size + +On extraction, this option controls whether to display actual record +size, if it differs from the default. + +* New command line option --keep-directory-symlink + +By default, if trying to extract a directory from the archive, +tar discovers that the corresponding file name already exists and is a +symbolic link, it first unlinks the entry, and then extracts the directory. + +This option disables this behavior and instructs tar to follow +symlinks to directories when extracting from the archive. + +It is mainly intended to provide compatibility with the Slackware +installation scripts. + version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12 @@ -1390,7 +1505,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. -Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar.