Petr Vandrovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This decision makes tar completely incompatible. Programs which worked > fine with tar for 6 years are suddenly broken, and now you have to have > two versions - one for 'tar' before this brokeness, which do not pass > --wildcards, and one for this broken 'tar', which passes --wildcards. > And older version on newer 'tar' extracts nothing, while new version on > older 'tar' fails with an unknown option error.
The --wildcards flag was added in tar 1.13.20 in 2001-06-27, so passing --wildcards is safe even for oldstable. Only the default changed. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
