Someone mentioned on this list earlier that exclude list won't work with
GNU tar 1.13, and that version 1.13.19 was required. I think I have
verified that; our Linux clients have tar version 1.13.19, and on those
exclude list (or tar --exclude-from) seems to work fine, while on our
SGI
On 22/04 2002 15:08 Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 at 10:09am, Toralf Lund wrote
Someone mentioned on this list earlier that exclude list won't work
with
GNU tar 1.13, and that version 1.13.19 was required. I think I have
verified that; our Linux clients have tar version
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 at 4:59pm, Toralf Lund wrote
On 22/04 2002 15:08 Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar
So it is (and I quote) unstable, incomplete, or otherwise unsuited for
official
publication.
Seems like Red Hat and others have not respected the good judgement