Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: tar
[Hardy] please update tar to version 1.20, which provides support for
lzma compression (7-zip format).
$ lsb_release -dr
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
$ apt-cache policy tar
tar:
Installed: 1.19-3
Candidate: 1.19-3
Version table:
*** 1.19-3 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
(http://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group=tar)
Tar 1.20
posted by gray, Monday 04/14/2008 at 14:33 UTC - 0 replies
GNU tar 1.20 is available for download from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar.
New in this version:
* New option --auto-compress (-a)
With --create, selects compression algorithm basing on the suffix of the
archive file name.
* New option --lzma ...
(http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/#releases)
# New option --auto-compress (-a)
With --create, selects compression algorithm basing on the suffix of the
archive file name.
# New option --lzma
Selects LZMA compression algorithm.
# New option --hard-dereference
During archive creation, dereferences hard links and stores the files
they refer to, instead of creating usual hard link members (type '1').
# New option --checkpoint-action
This action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hitting a
checkpoint. Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the default),
echo=string, ttyout=string, exec=cmdline, and sleep=value. Any number of
--checkpoint-action options can be specified, the actions will be
executed in order of their appearance in the command line. See section
3.8 "Checkpoints" for a complete description.
# New options --no-check-device, --check-device.
The --no-check-device option disables comparing device numbers during
preparatory stage of an incremental dump. This allows to avoid creating
full dumps if the device numbers change (e.g. when using an LVM
snapshot).
The --check-device option enables comparing device numbers. This is the
default. This option is provided to undo the effect of the previous
--no-check-device option, e.g. if it was set in TAR_OPTIONS environment
variable.
# The --transform option.
Any number of --transform options can be given in the command line. The
specified transformations will be applied in turn.
Argument to --transform option can be a list of replace expressions,
separated by a semicolon (as in sed).
Filename transformations are applied to symbolic link targets during
both creation and extraction. Tar 1.19 used them only during extraction.
For a detailed description, see section 6.7 "Modifying File and Member
Names".
# Info (end-of-volume) scripts
The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and
checkpoint scripts via environment variable TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR.
# Incremental archives
Improved (sped up) extracting from incremental archives.
# Bugfixes.
* Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-
existing archives.
** Affects: tar (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[Hardy] please update tar to 1.20 which provides lzma support
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219600
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