Ralph Corderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ echo $? > 2 > > So that's OK. [...] > And that too.
Great. > Can I take it that the tar files I've created with 1.14 are therefore OK > with regard too 1.15.1 reading them correctly, i.e. I can keep them as > long-term backups? Since you are able to read them, I'd say yes, you can. > I see Debian has 1.15.1 in unstable and was wondering if Ubuntu 5.04 > should upgrade to it given 1.14 can't read what it's just written. Is > there anything different between the two versions that may put off a > distribution? No, there is not, in my opinion. However, it's up to Ubuntu packagers and maintainers to decide. > > Lastly, what I suppose I really want, seeing that `tar tvf' doesn't do > > it, is an option for tar to check the integrity of a tar file by examing > > *all* its meta-data. > > That would still be useful AFAICS. Sure, thanks for the idea. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
