On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Seems to work OK here as well on i686. -Dan
