Hello, I am pleased to announce the release of GNU cpio version 2.8. This is mainly a bug-fix release.
GNU cpio is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio and the mirror sites worldwide (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for the list of those). For more information on cpio, including links to file downloads, please see its web page: http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio and the the project page http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cpio. The MD5 checksums of the files are: 0caa356e69e149fb49b76bacc64615a1 cpio-2.8.tar.gz 748117d64e156f79e223cf68904c949c cpio-2.8.tar.bz2 The list of user-visible changes follows: * Option --owner can be used in copy-out mode, allowing to uniformly override ownership of the files being added to the archive. * Bugfixes: ** Fix handling of symbolic links in copy-out mode. ** Fix setting file permissions in copy-out mode. ** Fix handling of large files. ** Fix CAN-2005-1111 Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
