From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17415 invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2008 03:24:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 8656 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Apr 2008 03:20:39 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6w2RKkhu7vgA:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=20KFwNOVAAAA:8 a=xe8BsctaAAAA:8 a=-ah6wMXDefldYl2XiIEA:9 a=LDNzUWLwpCCtY4vAJ9oA:7 a=FLrGWsZnrGq8hVQPKHwko32IS9QA:4 a=TRvmKqLbH9UA:10 a=7pGOCF1mIgkA:10 a=66msUWWtX2wA:10 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 a=fnxBYPQR5S0dsFz5b9MA:9 a=iV6AvieN3naXT6FW60cA:7 a=gvYY6nJhmgjEoVTN9FidkNWBXo0A:4 a=39Mkji9fv_4A:10 Message-ID: <4806C24B.3010605@byu.net> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:24:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080213 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: tar-1.20-1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040201010001050102010704" 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: 2008-04/txt/msg00030.txt.bz2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040201010001050102010704 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 2560 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of tar, 1.20-1, is available, replacing 1.19.90-1 as the current version, and leaving 1.19-1 as previous. NEWS: ===== This is a new stable upstream release. It finalizes the new --lzma feature that can be used to achieve better compression ratios if you also install lzma. This release requires cygwin-1.5.25 or later. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/tar-1.20/. 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 v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgGwkoACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDGRQCfZvj7w54QEiJE86pPTUHVy9IC 21EAnRVt3VcIokf+dmiFBsoIpaa99mcO =AgCB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------040201010001050102010704 Content-Type: text/plain; name="NEWS.short" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="NEWS.short" Content-length: 2166 version 1.20 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-04-14 * New option --auto-compress (-a) With --create, selects compression algorithm basing on the suffix of the archive file name. * New option --lzma Selects LZMA compression algorithm * New option --hard-dereference During archive creation, dereferences hard links and stores the files they refer to, instead of creating usual hard link members (type '1'). * New option --checkpoint-action This action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hitting a checkpoint. Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the default), echo=string, ttyout=string, exec=cmdline, and sleep=value. Any number of `--checkpoint-action' options can be specified, the actions will be executed in order of their appearance in the command line. See chapter 3.8 "Checkpoints" for a complete description. * New options --no-check-device, --check-device. The `--no-check-device' option disables comparing device numbers during preparatory stage of an incremental dump. This allows to avoid creating full dumps if the device numbers change (e.g. when using an LVM snapshot). The `--check-device' option enables comparing device numbers. This is the default. This option is provided to undo the effect of the previous `--no-check-device' option, e.g. if it was set in TAR_OPTIONS environment variable. * The --transform option. Any number of `--transform' options can be given in the command line. The specified transformations will be applied in turn. The argument to `--transform' option can be a list of replace expressions, separated by a semicolon (as in `sed'). Filename transformations are applied to symbolic link targets during both creation and extraction. Tar 1.19 used them only during extraction. For a detailed description, see chapter 6.7 "Modifying File and Member Names". * Info (end-of-volume) scripts The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and checkpoint scripts via environment variable TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR. * Incremental archives Improved (sped up) extracting from incremental archives. * Bugfixes. ** Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-existing archives. --------------040201010001050102010704--