X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44C5E763.2030902@ukf.net> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:41:55 +0100 From: Max Bowsher Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Thunderbird/1.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tar-1.15.91-1 References: In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: id=C0F2C580 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6B812DCDB3A02EF8EA12D067" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com --------------enig6B812DCDB3A02EF8EA12D067 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Eric Blake wrote: > A new release of tar, 1.15.91-1, is available, replacing 1.15.1-4 as the > current version. >=20 > NEWS: > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > This is a new beta-quality upstream release. > * Incompatible changes > ** Globbing > Previous versions of GNU tar assumed shell-style globbing when > extracting from or listing an archive. This behavior > was not documented and was incompatible with traditional tar > implementations. Therefore, starting from this version, GNU tar > no longer uses globbing by default. To treat member names as > globbing patterns, use --wildcards option. If you wish tar to > mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90, add --wildcards to > the value of the environment variable TAR_OPTIONS. This is likely to break quite a few scripts using tar. Worth announcing prominently in its own right, not just as part of the changelog. > ** List files containing null-separated file names are detected > and processed automatically. It is no longer necessary to give > the --null option. Unfortunately, this detection code also outputs a 'warning' to stderr, which (AFAICS) cannot be suppressed by an options. Messy. (Noticed on Debian when this started showing up every time any .deb was built, but I imagine this might affect some scripts driving tar on Cygwin too.) Max. --------------enig6B812DCDB3A02EF8EA12D067 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) iD8DBQFExedwfFNSmcDyxYARAkaOAKCp9b49s8vROj31glpktLDp/PC8GgCfaFvb oEjlid9PqR74kErXfHJGVuc= =2AI/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6B812DCDB3A02EF8EA12D067--