On 22/04 2002 15:08 Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 at 10:09am, Toralf Lund wrote > > > Someone mentioned on this list earlier that "exclude list" won't work > with > > GNU tar 1.13, and that version 1.13.19 was required. I think I have > > verified that; our Linux clients have tar version 1.13.19, and on those > > > "exclude list" (or tar --exclude-from) seems to work fine, while on our > > > SGI clients (which includes the server with most of the file systems) > with > > tar 1.13 it doesn't. > > > > Anyhow, the big question is: Where does version 1.13.19 come from? > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar has nothing newer than 1.13 from 1999. > > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar So it is (and I quote) "unstable, incomplete, or otherwise unsuited for official publication."
Seems like Red Hat and others have not "respected the good judgement of maintainers", though, and ineed included it in an official distribution. Comments, anyone? - Toralf
