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- two patches are removed, upstream change
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- Updated archivers/gtar to 1.29
Updated archivers/gtar-base to 1.29
Updated archivers/gtar-info to 1.29
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version 1.29 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2016-05-16
* New options: --verbatim-files-from, --no-verbatim-files-from
The --verbatim-files-from option instructs tar to treat each line read
from a file list as a file name, even if it starts with a dash.
File lists are supplied with the --files-from (-T) option. By
default, each line read from a file list is first stripped off the
leading and trailing whitespace and, if the result begins with a dash,
it is treated as tar command line option.
Use the --verbatim-files-from option to disable this special handling.
This facilitates the use of tar with file lists created automatically
(e.g. by find(1) command).
This option affects all --files-from options that occur after it in
the command line. Its effect is reverted by the
--no-verbatim-files-from option.
* --null option reads file names verbatim
The --null option implies --verbatim-files-from. I.e. each line
read from null-delimited file lists is treated as a file name.
This restores the documented behavior, which was broken in version
1.27.
* New options: --owner-map=FILE and --group-map=FILE
These two options provide fine-grained control over what user/group
names (or IDs) should be mapped when adding files to archive.
For both options, FILE is a plain text file with user or group
mappings. Empty lines are ignored. Comments are introduced with
# sign (unless quoted) and extend to the end of the corresponding
line. Each non-empty line defines translation for a single UID (GID).
It must consist of two fields, delimited by any amount of whitespace:
OLDNAME NEWNAME[:NEWID]
OLDNAME is either a valid user (group) name or a ID prefixed with +. Unless
NEWID is supplied, NEWNAME must also be either a valid name or a
+ID. Otherwise, both NEWNAME and NEWID need not be listed in the
system user database.
* New option --clamp-mtime
The new --clamp-mtime option changes the behavior of --mtime to only
use the time specified if the file mtime is newer than the given time.
The --clamp-mtime option can only be used together with --mtime.
Typical use case is to make builds reproducible: to loose less
information, it's better to keep the original date of an archive,
except for files modified during the build process. In that case, using
reference (and thus reproducible) timestamps for the latter is good
enough.
See <https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds> for more information.
* Deprecated --preserve option removed
* Sparse file detection
Tar now uses SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE on systems that support it. This
allows for considerable speed-up in sparse-file detection.
New option --hole-detection is provided, that allows the user to
select the algorithm used for hole detection. Available arguments
are:
--hole-detection=seek
Use lseek(2) SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE "whence" parameters.
--hole-detection=raw
Scan entire file before storing it to determine where holes
are located.
The default is to use "seek" whenever possible, and fall back to
"raw" otherwise.
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Use official man page, now that there is one.
version 1.28, 2014-07-28
* New checkpoint action: totals
The --checkpoint-action=totals option instructs tar to output the
total number of bytes transferred at each checkpoint.
* Extended checkpoint format specification.
New conversion specifiers are implemented. Some of them take
optional arguments, supplied in curly braces between the percent
sign and the specifier letter.
%d - Number of seconds since tar started.
%{r,w,d}T - I/O totals; optional arguments supply prefixes
to be used before number of bytes read, written and
deleted, correspondingly.
%{FMT}t - Current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format.
If {FMT} is omitted, use %c.
%{N}* - Pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the
current screen width, if {N} is not given.
%c - A shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r"
* New option --one-top-level
The option --one-top-level tells tar to extract all files into a
subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus standard
compression suffixes recognizable by --auto-compress). When used with
an argument, as in --one-top-level=DIR, the files are extracted into the
supplied DIRectory. This ensures that no archive members are
extracted outside of the specified directory, even if the archive is
crafted so as to put them elsewhere.
* New option --sort
The --sort=ORDER option instructs tar to sort directory entries
according to ORDER. It takes effect when creating archives.
Available ORDERs are: none (the default), name and inode. The
latter may be absent, if the underlying system does not provide
the necessary information.
Using --sort=name ensures the member ordering in the created archive
is uniform and reproducible. Using --sort=inode reduces the number
of disk seeks made when creating the archive and thus can considerably
speed up archivation.
* New exclusion options
--exclude-ignore=FILE Before dumping a directory check if it
contains FILE, and if so read exclude
patterns for this directory from FILE.
--exclude-ignore-recursive=FILE
Same as above, but the exclusion patterns
read from FILE remain in effect for any
subdirectory, recursively.
--exclude-vcs-ignores Read exclude tags from VCS ignore files,
where such files exist. Supported VCS's
are: CVS, Git, Bazaar, Mercurial.
* Tar refuses to read input from and write output to a tty device.
* Manpages
This release includes official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages.
Distribution maintainers are kindly asked to use these instead of the
home-made pages they have been providing so far.
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