On Monday 11 April 2005 12:17, 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. > 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 ;-). > >Thanks, >Frank
ISTR, but don't take it to the bank, that 1.14 had some sort of a gotcha. I never tried it myself however, so take that with a appropriate seasoning. It sure didn't last too long before it was replaced with 1.15.1 though if thats any indicator. I switched to the latest 1.15.1 about 6 months ago, and have had zilch problems with that version so far. 1.13-19 and 1.13-25 were also known to be good versions. -- 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) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
