X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1b051bdbdd53afb0c66aa33733d0f68abea9328a;hb=f730b4731421f8cc718e42ff776a1fee7c0c02b9;hp=12d6e609e5df2fcefa9c8428085377da09cb64c5;hpb=466e40abe52da02416237c688fea5f909892cc56;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 12d6e60..1b051bd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.13.94 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-04-04 +version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11 * Added support for POSIX.1-2001 and ustar archive formats. * New option --format allows to select the output archive format @@ -46,7 +46,25 @@ version 1.13.94 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-04-04 * --incremental and --listed-incremental options work correctly on individual files, as well as on directories. - + +* New scripts: backup (replaces old level-0 and level-1) and restore. +The scripts are compiled and installed if --enable-backup-scripts +option is given to configure. + +* By default tar searches "rmt" utility in "$prefix/libexec/rmt", +which is consistent with the location where the version of "rmt" +included in the package is installed. Previous versions of tar +used "/etc/rmt". To install "rmt" to its traditional location, +run configure with option --libexecdir=/etc. Otherwise, if you +already have rmt installed and wish to use it, instead of the +shipped in version, set the variable DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND to +the full path name of the utility, e.g. ./configure +DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND=/etc/rmt. + +Notice also that the full path name of the "rmt" utility to +use can be set at runtime, by giving option --rmt-command to +tar. + * Removed obsolete command line options: ** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names ** --block-compress is not needed any longer