X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?p=chaz%2Ftar;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=c56d3359553e6c9819431c36a624169416a922ca;hp=1d2d50a493f2249559facc9764cdedc254788670;hb=HEAD;hpb=cab627b49d8bd70f1db89ff1bab6b40f0fe69e2e diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 1d2d50a..c56d335 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,26 +1,20 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar. +* <45BEC0DB.8040903@unix-beratung.de> + * 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 restoring file time stamps to sub-second resolution, + if the file system supports this. + +* Add support for restoring the attributes of symbolic links, for + OSes like FreeBSD that have the lutimes and lchmod functions. -* Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001 tar archives - (along with technical corrections to the standard since 2001). +* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types. * Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001. This would unify paxutils with tar. -* Remove command-line incompatibilities between GNU tar and UNIX tar - as specified by UNIX98. The main problem is: - - l GNU tar doesn't cross filesystem boundaries. - UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved. - (GNU tar --check-links option) - - Perhaps we could announce a phase-in period where "l" changes in semantics. - In the meanwhile we could make the "l" semantics to be determined by the - value of POSIXLY_CORRECT variable. - * Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation. * Add an option to remove files that compare successfully. @@ -31,26 +25,42 @@ 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 tests for the new functonality. + +* Consider this: + + From: Dennis Pund + Subject: TAR suggestion... + Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST) + + What I would like to do is: + + foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar + + where 'foo' is a program that retrieves the archive and streams it + to stdout and bar is a program that streams the stdin to CDR. + + (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html) + + * Copyright notice - Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright 2003-2004, 2007, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - This file is part of GNU tar. +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 2, or (at your option) - any later version. +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 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 - MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the - GNU General Public License for more details. +GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, - Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with this program. If not, see . Local variables: