X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?p=chaz%2Ftar;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=aa6d4739e05cbbbbdd924b6ede9071054ce22ed9;hp=2fa8f51ddbee3a7c7e4b2366fec21b02e9913b5e;hb=HEAD;hpb=debc485626c0c143731b0ca229d18b48085bb2ef diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2fa8f51..aa6d473 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,124 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2012-01-18 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2015-08-03 Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.26.90 (Git) +version 1.28.90 (Git) + +* New options: --verbatim-files-from, --no-verbatim-files-from + +The --verbatim-files-from option instructs tar to treat each line read +from a file list as a file name, even if it starts with a dash. + +File lists are supplied with the --files-from (-T) option. By +default, each line read from a file list is first stripped off the +leading and trailing whitespace and, if the result begins with a dash, +it is treated as tar command line option. + +Use the --verbatim-files-from option to disable this special handling. +This facilitates the use of tar with file lists created automatically +(e.g. by file(1) command). + +This option affects all --files-from options that occur after it in +the command line. Its effect is reverted by the +--no-verbatim-files-from option. + +* --null option reads file names verbatim + +The --null option implies --verbatim-files-from. I.e. each line +read from null-delimited file lists is treated as a file name. + +This restores the documented behavior, which was broken in version +1.27. + + +version 1.28, 2014-07-28 + +* 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 have been providing 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 + +** Sparse files with large data + +When creating a PAX-format archive, tar no longer arbitrarily restricts +the size of the representation of a sparse file to be less than 8 GiB. * Quoting @@ -11,9 +127,7 @@ adjusted to quote 'like this' (with apostrophes) instead of `like this' (with an accent grave character and an apostrophe). This tracks recent changes to the GNU coding standards. -* New features - -** --owner and --group names and numbers +* --owner and --group names and numbers The --owner and --group options now accept operands of the form NAME:NUM, so that you can specify both symbolic name and numeric ID @@ -34,6 +148,54 @@ errors. Instead it just silently skips them. An additional level of verbosity can be obtained by using the option --warning=existing-file together with this option. +* Support for POSIX ACLs, extended attributes and SELinux context. + +Starting with this version tar is able to store, extract and list +extended file attributes, POSIX.1e ACLs and SELinux context. This is +controlled by the command line options --xattrs, --acls and --selinux, +correspondingly. Each of these options has a `--no-' counterpart +(e.g. --no-xattrs), which disables the corresponding feature. +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 @@ -236,7 +398,7 @@ Modification times in ustar header blocks of extended headers are set to mtimes of the corresponding archive members. This can be overridden by the - --pax-opion='exthdr.mtime=STRING' + --pax-option='exthdr.mtime=STRING' command line option. The STRING is either number of seconds since the Epoch or a "Time reference" (see below). @@ -246,7 +408,7 @@ headers are set to the time when tar was invoked. This can be overridden by the - --pax-opion='globexthdr.mtime=STRING' + --pax-option='globexthdr.mtime=STRING' command line option. The STRING is either number of seconds since the Epoch or a "Time reference" (see below). @@ -1372,15 +1534,14 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. -Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, -2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013-2015 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 3, or (at your option) -any later version. +the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of @@ -1388,9 +1549,7 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 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., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, -Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. +along with this program. If not, see . Local variables: mode: outline