On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Andreas Radke <[email protected]> wrote: > a new upstream release that adds some additional features. please > signoff when everything is still fine. > > -AndyRTR > > > > version 1.21 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-12-27 > > * New short option -J > > A shortcut for --lzma. > > * New option --lzop > > * New option --no-auto-compress > > Cancels the effect of previous --auto-compress (-a) option. > > * New option --no-null > > Cancels the effect of previous --null option. > > * Compressed format recognition > > If tar is unable to determine archive compression format, it falls > back to using archive suffix to determine it. > > * VCS support. > > Using --exclude-vcs handles also files used internally by Bazaar, > Mercurial and Darcs. > > * Transformation scope flags > > Name transformation expressions understand additional flags that > control type of archive members affected by them. The flags are: > > - r > Apply transformation to regular archive members. > > - s > Apply transformation to symbolic link targets. > > - h > Apply transformation to hard link targets. > > Corresponding upper-case letters negate the meaning, so that > `H' means ``do not apply transformation to hard link targets.'' > > The scope flags are listed in the third part of an `s' expression, > e.g.: > > tar --transform 's|^|/usr/local/|S' > > Default is `rsh', which means that transformations are applied to > both regular archive members and to the targets of symbolic and hard > links. If several transform expressions are used, the default flags > can be changed using `flags=' statement before the expressions, e.g.: > > tar --transform 'flags=S;s|^|/usr/local/|S' > > * Bugfixes > > ** The --null option disabled handling of tar options in list files. > This is fixed. > ** Fixed record size autodetection. If detected record size differs > from the expected value (either default, or set on the command line), > tar always prints a warning if verbosity level is set to 1 or greater, > i.e. if either -t or -v option is given. >
tar still works. signoff both arches.
