#2309: Tar 1.21
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Reporter: willimm | Owner: lfs-b...@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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New version.
From NEWS:
New short option -J, an alias 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.
The 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 a s expression, e.g.:
$ tar --transform 's|^|/usr/local/|S'
The 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 placed before the expressions, e.g.:
$ tar --transform 'flags=S;s|^|/usr/local/|'
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 prints a
warning if verbosity level is set to 1 or greater, i.e. if either -t or -v
option is given.
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