On Saturday 15 May 2010, Bruno Haible wrote: >Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: >> The fact that nobody has noticed >> it before seems to indicate that these two options (--old-archive, >> --portability) are not needed at all. > >Indeed, the bug was introduced between versions 1.14 and 1.15.1, that is, >6 years ago. > >Bruno > IIRC, that somehow bollixed up amanda's use of tar at the time. We had to skip from 1.13 to 1.15.1 if my ancient wet ram can be trusted.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It looks like blind screaming hedonism won out.
