Hello, New alpha release of GNU tar, tar-1.22.90, is available for download from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar. See below for the list of new features and bugfixes.
Please, test it. Any reports and suggestions are much appreciated. Here are the compressed sources: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.90.tar.gz (3.0MB) ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.90.tar.bz2 (2.0MB) ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.90.cpio.gz (3.0MB) ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.90.shar.gz (4.5MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.90.tar.gz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.90.tar.bz2.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.90.cpio.gz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.90.shar.gz.sig Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: 499cceb9d2c2b02421ee08e2e61fb233 tar-1.22.90.tar.gz f6e373e498b3fe7d86547d0035573579 tar-1.22.90.tar.bz2 6af956ca1aad9b246523c4ab6c595f50 tar-1.22.90.cpio.gz 20f46726096d3a2ea0a72a5b2ffb460e tar-1.22.90.shar.gz 84439222687eccf6c4bf8da467d428b1b4033faa tar-1.22.90.tar.gz ff2d6fd280f891131e62ed4e22c8ca2828eced56 tar-1.22.90.tar.bz2 f82ce89a48548f9f4b0216dcf5c600e40e5f483a tar-1.22.90.cpio.gz 5a4248ba175afa1c123d6bc58c7974e53989a668 tar-1.22.90.shar.gz [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify tar-1.22.90.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 55D0C732 and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.63 Automake 1.11 Gnulib-tool 0.0.2273-2bab1 Makeinfo 4.13 The list of user-visible changes follows: * Record size autodetection When listing or extracting archives, the actual record size is reported only if the archive is read from a device (as opposed to regular files and pipes). * New command line option `--warning' The `--warning' command line option allows to suppress or enable particular warning messages during `tar' run. It takes a single argument (a `keyword'), identifying the class of warning messages to affect. If the argument is prefixed with `no-', such warning messages are suppressed. For example, tar --warning=no-alone-zero-block -x -f archive suppresses the output of `A lone zero block' diagnostics, which is normally issued if `archive' ends with a single block of zeros. * New command line option `--level' The `--level=N' option sets the incremental dump level N. It is valid when used in conjunction with the -c and --listed-incremental options. So far the only meaningful value for N is 0. The `--level=0' option forces creating the level 0 dump, by truncating the snapshot file if it exists. * Files removed during incremental dumps If a file or directory is removed while incremental dump is in progress, tar exact actions depend on whether this file was explicitly listed in the command line, or was gathered during file system scan. If the file was explicitly listed in the command line, tar issues error message and exits with the code 2, meaning fatal error. Otherwise, if the file was gathered during the file system scan, tar issues a warning, saying "File removed before we read it", and sets the exit code to 1, which means "some files differ". If the --warning=no-file-removed option is given, no warning is issued and the exit code remains 0. * Bugfixes ** Fix handling of hard link targets by -c --transform. ** Fix hard links recognition with -c --remove-files. ** Fix restoring files from backup (debian bug #508199). ** Correctly restore modes and permissions on existing directories. Regards, Sergey
