From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27962 invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2007 14:56:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 15401 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Aug 2007 14:53:50 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46CEF109.9010005@byu.net> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:56:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: tar-1.18-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of tar, 1.18-2, is available, replacing 1.18-1. Version 1.16.1-1 remains the previous version. NEWS: ===== This is a minor patch release. It fixes the RHSA-2007:0860-01 security flaw, as well as working around a cygwin bug that was triggered when extracting broken symlinks. This release requires cygwin-1.5.24 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/tar-1.18/. 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.COM@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGzvEJ84KuGfSFAYARAooiAJ0f0zDID+ijsxgkSkQnEdsXik0RngCghNEe k/bfsG7z9GPfCEZcFBGEl78= =yD5u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----