package: tar
New upstream versions available: 1.15.1, 1.1.5, and 1.1.4.90.
Changes in 1.15.1 (2004-12-21):
Unpacking archives piped from standard input now works correctly. This logic flaw was introduced in version 1.15 and has unfortunately passed unnoticed the pretesting phase.
Changes in 1.15 (2004-12-20):
* Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no longer necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. Thus, you can now run tar tf archive.tar.gz and expect it to work!
* When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices from being purged.
* --strip-path option renamed to --strip-components.
* Restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option or some patterns. This prevents accidental restores.
* tar --verify prints a warning if during archive creation some of the file names had their prefixes stripped off.
* New option --exclude-caches instructs tar to exclude cache directories.
Changes in 1.14.90 (2004-09-02):
* When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices from being purged.
With the previous versions of tar it was dangerous to create incremental dumps with --one-file-system option, since they would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the back up. This change fixes the bug.
* Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with the GNU convention.
* Skipping archive members is sped up if the archive media supports seeks.
* Restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option, or some patterns. This is to prevent accidental restores.
* `tar --verify' prints a warning if during archive creation some of the file names had their prefixes stripped off.
* New configure option --with-rmt allows to specify full path name to the `rmt' utility. This supercedes DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable introduced in version 1.14
* New configure variable DEFAULT_RMT_DIR allows to specify the directory where to install `rmt' utility. This is necessary since modifying --libexecdir as was suggested for version 1.14 produced a side effect: it also modified installation prefix for backup scripts (if --enable-backup-scripts was given).
* Bugfixes:
** Fixed flow in recognizing files to be included in incremental dumps.
** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option.
** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters.
Do not allow multivolume archives to begin with such filenames.
** If a member with link count > 2 was stored in the archive twice,
previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they
were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and
lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first
extracted copy in such cases.
** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option.
** Fixed verification of the created archives.
** Fixed unquoting of the file names containing backslash escapes (previous
versions failed to recognize \a and \v).
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