From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 92386 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2016 04:09:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 92201 invoked by uid 89); 9 Dec 2016 04:09:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*R:D*cygwin.com, click X-HELO: localhost.localdomain Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.localdomain) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 04:09:29 +0000 Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No From: "Eric Blake (cygwin)" Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tar-1.29-1 Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List , cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 04:09:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00094.txt.bz2 A new release of tar, 1.29-1, will soon be available at your favorite mirror, leaving 1.28-1 as the previous version. NEWS: ===== This is a new upstream release. Upstream release notes can be found alongside other documentation in /usr/share/doc/tar/. This also fixes an accidental regression, where the cygwin build of 1.28-1 lost the patches for text mount interoperability that were present in 1.27.1-1. 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 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 package maintainer For more details on this list (including unsubscription), see: http://sourceware.org/lists.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple