Hello, here comes ping on several topics for which I posted some patches/ideas before; these need to be refreshed a little.
I don't want to kick you to push my changes — what I need now is just hear which ideas are planned to be used in future and which of them I should completely scratch and forget. Something like "this seems to be reasonable but we don't have a time for proper review" or "no, this is not what we want, probably" would be enough. * http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar@gnu.org/msg03917.html - defect in listing of sparse files of effective size > 8GB * http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar@gnu.org/msg04052.html - --xattrs-include/--xattrs-exclude should imply --xattrs - bug in acls/xattrs/selinux listing (comparing against non-zero XXX_option is not correct) * http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-08/msg00012.html - concretely, I'm talking about patch 0005 - the xattrs/selinux/acls documentation was not pushed yet, should it be fixed somehow? * http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2013-05/msg00021.html - really minor, $RSH should be mentioned in `./configure --help` output * http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar@gnu.org/msg03800.html - multivolume handling fixes, the 0003 patch is important.. probably complete proposal needs to be shrunken into 1 patch, should I do it? * http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar@gnu.org/msg03691.html - mostly unnecessarily tl;dr message about --update feature, which is really broken ATM. IIRC the code, this needs bigger code change. Should I continue to work on that topic and do better proposal, or do you plan to fix (or also remove?) --update support yourself? Thanks a lot for any comment. I would love to be as much useful as possible with getting some of those ^^ resolved. Thanks, Pavel