2007-06-08 Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>
+ * configure.ac, NEWS: Raise version number to 1.17
+
* doc/tar.texi, doc/intern.texi: Replace: s/filename/file name/;
s/(ASCII|ID|BSD)/@acronym{&}/;s/"[^"]+"/``&''/
Use `path' only when it refers to search paths, use
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-06-08
Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
\f
-version 1.16.2
+version 1.17 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-08
* Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode. Previous versions padded
sparse members with spurious zero blocks.
* Fix --occurence. In previous versions it continued scanning the archive
even though all requested members has already been extracted.
-* The options --transform and --strip-components affect hard and soft link
- targets.
+* Scope of --transform and --strip-components options.
+
+In addition to affecting regular archive members, the --transform
+option affects hard and soft link targets and the --strip-components
+option affects hard link targets as well.
* End-of-volume script can send the new volume name to tar by writing
- it to the file descriptor $TAR_FD.
+ it to the file descriptor stored in the environment variable `TAR_FD'.
\f
-version 1.16.1
+version 1.16.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-12-09
* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e.
files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not
was not processed correctly.
** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink
during reading.
-** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents.
+** Compare mode (tar d) hung when trying to compare file contents.
** Previous versions in certain cases failed to restore directory
modification times.
** When creating an archive, do not attempt to store files whose
Local variables:
mode: outline
paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
+eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+time-stamp-start: "changes. "
+time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d"
+time-stamp-end: "\n"
end:
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
# 02110-1301, USA.
-AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.16.2], [bug-tar@gnu.org])
+AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.17], [bug-tar@gnu.org])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/tar.c])
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h:config.hin])