From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:10:20 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Updated X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=412fbeb90d26ce2dbdcd5b71412cc8dbea6e4ef5;p=chaz%2Ftar Updated --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 79a9906..f930375 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to version 1.14.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, +* It is no longer necessary to specify -Z,-z, or -j options to +read compressed archives. GNU tar automatically detects the type +of archive it has to deal with and runs an appropriate decompressing +command. Thus, you can now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'. + * When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices from being purged. diff --git a/tests/star/README b/tests/star/README index a2fd0ae..552ddd6 100644 --- a/tests/star/README +++ b/tests/star/README @@ -12,43 +12,34 @@ or Following is a short description of the tests: -* gtarfail.sh and gtarfile2.tar +* gtarfail.at and gtarfail2.at These tests require gtarfile.tar and gtarfile2.tar, respectively. These files are POSIX compliant tar archives that were not accepted by previous versions of GNU tar. -* multi-fail.sh +* multi-fail.at Requires gnu-multi-fail-volume1.gtar and gnu-multi-fail-volume2.gtar. These are two parts of a multi-volume archive that previous versions of tar refused to read (at least, without -B option). -* ustar-big-2g.sh +* ustar-big-2g.at Requires ustar-big-2g.tar.bz2. It is a tar archive containing a file with the largest size that a historic tar implementation is able to understand. -* ustar-big-8g.sh +* ustar-big-8g.at Requires ustar-big-8g.tar.bz2. This is a test for reading an archive containing files with the largest size that may be used with ustar (POSIX.1-1990) format. -* pax-big-10g.sh +* pax-big-10g.at Requires pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves containing very large files (in this case -- 10 GB). -* qucktest.sh - -A test for compliance to POSIX.1-1990 tar specification. It requires -the files ustar-all-quicktest.tar and quicktest.filelist. Apart -from them, the `tartest' program from 'star' package is needed. -The test may be run only with root privileges, so it is a good -idea to test the contents of ustar-all-quicktest.tar before running -it. - Local variables: mode: outline