On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 at 11:17am, Frank Smith wrote > Is there a list of known working/broken tar versions? I remember > discussions about versions < 1.13.19 not building indexes correctly > (and was bit by that myself when I first started), and I saw some > remarks about the latest (at some time) version not working.
1.13.25 is well known to be quite stable. > Just asking because in the last week Debian Sarge is now distributing > tar 1.14. My amanda at work is built to use a local version, but my > home setup isn't. I intend to test it with some restores, but if there > are some subtle changes I might not notice until it's too late ;-). ISTR some discussions in the past of 1.14 being OK. Check the archives -- I think it was Gene. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
