On Monday 11 April 2005 12:59, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >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.
Tweren't me Joshua, I went straight to 1.15.1 about 6 months back and its been fine, but I don't think I ever tried 1.14 at all. It was pretty shortlived at gnu.org so that may be a clue that it wasn't quite right somehow. -- 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.
