Summary of changes (see NEWS and Changelog from the distribution for details):
- don't allow absolute paths, and path containing ../
* New option --overwrite-dir
* New option --recursion (the default) that is the inverse of --no-recursion.
* New options --anchored, --ignore-case, --wildcards,
--wildcards-match-slash, and their negations (e.g., --no-anchored).
Along with --recursion and --no-recursion, these options control how
exclude patterns are interpreted.
* The default interpretation of exclude patterns is now --no-anchored
--no-ignore-case --recursion --wildcards --wildcards-match-slash.
* The --no-recursion option now affects extraction too.
* New options --no-same-owner, --no-same-permissions.
* New option -y or --bzip2 for bzip2 compression, by popular request.
- fetch the shar file so we don't need tar
- do not install info files (they will be a separate pkg), as we need
tar to unpack the gtexinfo distribution
- on Solaris we get .mo files instead of .cat files (I'm guessing for
Linux, please someone verify and adjust Makefile appropriately)
- New, optional Makefile variable HOMEPAGE, specifies a URL for
the home page of the software if it has one.
- The value of HOMEPAGE is used to add a link from the
README.html files.
- pkglint updated to know about it. The "correct" location for
HOMEPAGE in the Makefile is after MAINTAINER, in that same
section.
- use lutimes() and lchmod() in addition to lchown()
- add --norecurse as an undocumented synonym for --no-recursion
- add --fast-read as an undocumented nullop (this is _not_ necessary)
- pre-set --unlink-first
- add --unlink as an undocumented synonym for --unlink-first
- add --no-unlink-first to allow turning --unlink-first off
NetBSD's tar is based on GNU tar 1.11.2. This tar, 1.12, has much of the
functionality NetBSD has added over time, so only the above changes were
necessary.
