Bruno Haible <[email protected]> ha escrit:

>   $ tar -cf - -C /mnt --old-archive . > /dev/null
>   tar: --old-archive: (PROGRAM ERROR) Option should have been recognized!?
>   Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.

That's a bug. Thanks for pointing this out. The fact that nobody has noticed
it before seems to indicate that these two options (--old-archive,
--portability) are not needed at all. One may simply write --format=v7
(-Hv7) instead.

Regards,
Sergey

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