Dogcows Code - chaz/tar/blob - TODO

   1 Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
   2
   3 * Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
   4
   5 * Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers,
   6 so that the GNU extensions (--sparse, --incremental, --label and
   7 --multi-volume) may be used with POSIX archives.
   8
   9 * Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
  10   This would unify paxutils with tar.
  11
  12 * Remove command-line incompatibilities between GNU tar and UNIX tar
  13   as specified by UNIX98.  The main problem is:
  14
  15      l   GNU tar doesn't cross filesystem boundaries.
  16          UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved.
  17            (GNU tar --check-links option)
  18
  19   Perhaps we could announce a phase-in period where "l" changes in semantics.
  20   In the meanwhile we could make the "l" semantics to be determined by the
  21   value of POSIXLY_CORRECT variable.
  22
  23 * Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation.
  24
  25 * Add an option to remove files that compare successfully.
  26
  27   From: Roesinger Eric <ROESINGE@tce.com>
  28   Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:43:43 -0500
  29
  30   It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
  31   to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
  32
  33 * Add an option to cut away the first N output path elements:
  34
  35   From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>
  36   Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:55:31 +0200
  37
  38   some archives have members like
  39   foo/bar
  40   foo/baz
  41   foo/bam
  42
  43   When I now want to extract the three members bar, baz and bam to the
  44   directory fom instead foo, I need to extract to foo and then to move
  45   the files over manually.
  46
  47   patch(1) solves that problem by offering an option taking the number
  48   of path elements to cut away before using the path name. With an
  49   option like that, the above problem could be solved with
  50
  51   tar --extract --cut-path-elements 1 --directory fom
  52
  53 \f
  54 * Copyright notice
  55
  56   Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  57
  58   This file is part of GNU tar.
  59
  60   GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  61   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  62   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  63   any later version.
  64
  65   GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  66   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  67   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  68   GNU General Public License for more details.
  69
  70   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  71   along with tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
  72   the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  73   Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
  74
  75 \f
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