A new release of tar, 1.22.90-1, is available, leaving 1.22-1 as the previous version.
NEWS: ===== This is a new beta upstream release, but appears to be stable enough to promote into use. Upstream release notes are attached. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/tar/. DESCRIPTION: ============ GNU Tar is an archiver program. It is used to create and manipulate files that are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method of controlling a large amount of data. Despite its name, that is an acronym of "tape archiver", GNU Tar is able to direct its output to any available devices, files or other programs, it may as well access remote devices or files. The main areas of usage for GNU Tar are: storage, backup and transportation. UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'tar' from the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin tar maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.
version 1.22.90 (Git) * Record size autodetection When listing or extracting archives, the actual record size is reported only if the archive is read from a device (as opposed to regular files and pipes). * New command line option `--warning' The `--warning' command line option allows to suppress or enable particular warning messages during `tar' run. It takes a single argument (a `keyword'), identifying the class of warning messages to affect. If the argument is prefixed with `no-', such warning messages are suppressed. For example, tar --warning=no-alone-zero-block -x -f archive suppresses the output of `A lone zero block' diagnostics, which is normally issued if `archive' ends with a single block of zeros. * New command line option `--level' The `--level=N' option sets the incremental dump level N. It is valid when used in conjunction with the -c and --listed-incremental options. So far the only meaningful value for N is 0. The `--level=0' option forces creating the level 0 dump, by truncating the snapshot file if it exists. * Files removed during incremental dumps If a file or directory is removed while incremental dump is in progress, tar exact actions depend on whether this file was explicitly listed in the command line, or was gathered during file system scan. If the file was explicitly listed in the command line, tar issues error message and exits with the code 2, meaning fatal error. Otherwise, if the file was gathered during the file system scan, tar issues a warning, saying "File removed before we read it", and sets the exit code to 1, which means "some files differ". If the --warning=no-file-removed option is given, no warning is issued and the exit code remains 0. * Bugfixes ** Fix handling of hard link targets by -c --transform. ** Fix hard links recognition with -c --remove-files. ** Fix restoring files from backup (debian bug #508199). ** Correctly restore modes and permissions on existing directories.
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