* Support for zstd compression (if zstd is installed).
* The -K option interacts properly with member names given on the command line.
* Fix handling of file shrinkage during read access when --sparse is used.
* Member names containing '..' components are now skipped when extracting.
* Report erroneous use of position-sensitive options.
* --numeric-owner now affects private headers too.
* Fixed the --delay-directory-restore option
* The --warnings=failed-read option
* The --warnings=none option now suppresses all warnings
* Fix reporting of hardlink mismatches during compare
* New checkpoint action: totals
* Extended checkpoint format specification.
* New option --one-top-level
* New option --sort
* New exclusion options
* Manpages
* Fix unquoting of file names obtained via the -T option.
* Fix GNU long link header timestamp (backward compatibility).
* Fix extracting sparse members from star archives.
PR: 189675
Submitted by: Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com>
- Some new flags, e.g. -J for lzma compression and --lzop.
- transformation scope flags
Testsuite fixes from upstream CVS.
* Drop workarounds for no longer supported FreeBSD releases.
- Update to 1.20.
Notable changes: This release adds support for lzma compression
and the -a option to select the compression algorithm based on
the suffix of the archive file name.
* Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode.
* Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental.
* Fix --occurrence.
* Scope of --transform and --strip-components options.
* End-of-volume script can send the new volume name to tar.
* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files".
* The --exclude-cache option now excludes the directories themselves, too.
* Support for reading ustar type 'N' logical records has been removed.
* Race conditions around 'tar -x --same-owner' have been fixed.
Incompatible changes:
* No globbing by default when extracting from or listing an archive.
* -l is now an alias of --check-links
Miscellaneous new options and bug fixes. For a complete list, see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-10/msg00031.html
Notable changes in this release:
- Support for POSIX.1-2001 and ustar archive formats.
- Various option flag changes.
- New message translations.
- Bug fixes.
* New option --overwrite-dir.
* Fixes for buffer overrun, porting, and copyright notice problems.
* Add Korean message catalog.
Fixes:
* Don't pick up spurious iconv dependency.
* Remove home page from pkg-descr. It provides little but
historical information, and links to an outdated version of the
GNU tar manuals, a current version of which ships with the port.
Approved by: trevor
PR: ports/30371
Submitted by: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
Add a patch to work around a /bin/sh bug described in PR #30392.
Submitted by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
- fixes --exclude, -X problem in version 1.13, where excludes have been
wrongly interpreted as filenames (not pathnames)
- some cosmetics from naddy
Submitted by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
