| 1 | GNU cpio NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2006-10-21
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| 2 | Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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| 3 | See the end of file for copying conditions.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | Please send cpio bug reports to <bug-cpio@gnu.org>.
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| 7 |
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| 8 | Version 2.7:
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| 9 |
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| 10 | * Improved error checking and diagnostics
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| 11 |
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| 12 | * Bugfixes
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| 13 | ** Fixed CAN-1999-1572
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| 14 | ** Allow to use --sparse in both copy-in and copy-pass.
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| 15 | ** Fix bug that eventually caused copying out the same hard-linked
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| 16 | file several times to archive.
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| 17 | ** Fix several LFS-related issues.
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| 18 | ** Fix Debian bug 335580.
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| 19 |
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| 21 |
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| 22 | Version 2.6
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| 23 |
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| 24 | * Added NLS support
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| 25 |
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| 26 | * Improved configure script
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| 27 |
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| 28 | * Improved invocation consistency checking and help output
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| 29 |
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| 30 | * Printing warning about truncation of inode numbers is suppressed by
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| 31 | default. See below.
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| 32 |
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| 33 | * New option --warning (-W) controls the level of output warnings:
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| 34 |
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| 35 | -Wnone Disables all warnings
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| 36 | -Wtruncate Enable warning about truncation of the inode number
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| 37 | -Wall Enables all warnings
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| 38 |
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| 39 | To disable a particular warning, prefix its name with 'no-', just
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| 40 | like in gcc.
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| 41 |
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| 42 | * New option --to-stdout extracts files to standard output.
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| 43 |
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| 44 | * The output of `cpio --help' is largely improved.
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| 45 |
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| 46 | * Bugfixes:
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| 47 | ** If a file grew n bytes in copy-pass mode, these n bytes got prepended
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| 48 | to the contents of all subsequent files.
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| 49 | ** Padding the archive with zero bytes upon truncation of the file being
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| 50 | archived was broken.
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| 51 |
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| 53 |
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| 54 | Major changes in version 2.5:
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| 55 |
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| 56 | * bug fixes from Debian, Red Hat, and SuSE GNU/Linux Distribution patches
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| 57 | * --rsh-command option
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| 59 |
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| 60 | Major changes in version 2.4:
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| 61 |
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| 62 | * new texinfo documentation
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| 63 | * --sparse option to write sparse files
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| 64 | * --only-verify-crc option to verify a CRC format archive
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| 65 | * --no-absolute-paths option to ignore absolute paths
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| 66 | * --quiet option to supress printing number of blocks copied
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| 67 | * handle disk input errors more gracefully
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| 69 |
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| 70 | Major changes in version 2.3:
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| 71 |
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| 72 | * in newc and crc format archives, only store 1 copy of multiply linked files
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| 73 | * handle multiply linked devices properly
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| 74 | * handle multiply linked files with cpio -pl even when the source and
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| 75 | destination are on different file systems
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| 76 | * support HPUX Context Dependent Files
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| 77 | * read and write HPUX cpio archives
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| 78 | * read System V.4 POSIX tar archives and HPUX POSIX tar archives
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| 79 | * use rmdir, instead of unlink, to delete existing directories
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| 81 |
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| 82 | Major changes in version 2.2:
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| 83 |
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| 84 | * handle link counts correctly when reading binary cpio archives
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| 85 | * configure checks for some libraries that SVR4 needs
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| 87 |
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| 88 | Major changes in version 2.1:
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| 89 |
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| 90 | * cpio can access remote non-device files as well as remote devices
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| 91 | * fix bugs in the MS-DOS port
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| 92 | * add --swap equivalent to -b option
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| 94 |
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| 95 | Version 2.0 adds the following features:
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| 96 |
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| 97 | Support for the SVR4 cpio formats, which can store inodes >65535, and
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| 98 | for traditional and POSIX tar archives. Also adds these options:
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| 99 |
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| 100 | -A --append append to instead of replacing the archive
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| 101 | -V --dot print a dot for each file processed
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| 102 | -H --format select archive format
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| 103 | -C --io-size select I/O block size in bytes
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| 104 | -M --message print a message at end of media volumes
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| 105 | --no-preserve-owner don't change files' owners when extracting
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| 106 | -R --owner set files' owners when extracting
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| 107 | -E --pattern-file list of shell filename patterns to process
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| 108 | -s --swap-bytes handle byte-order differences when extracting files
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| 109 | -S --swap-halfwords ditto
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| 110 | -b like -sS
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| 111 | -I input archive filename
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| 112 | -k recognize corrupted archives (we alawys do it, though)
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| 113 | -O output archive filename
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| 114 |
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| 115 | Some options of previous versions have been renamed in 2.0:
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| 116 |
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| 117 | --binary was replaced by --format=bin
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| 118 | --portability was replaced by --format=odc
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| 119 |
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| 120 | Some options have changed meaning in 2.0, for SVR4 compatibility:
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| 121 |
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| 122 | -O used to select the binary archive format, now selects the output file
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| 123 | -V used to print the version number, now prints a dot for each file
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| 124 |
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| 125 | Version 2.0 also fixes several bugs in the handling of files with
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| 126 | multiple links and of multi-volume archives on floppy disks.
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| 128 |
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| 129 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 130 | Copyright information:
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| 131 |
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| 132 | Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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| 133 |
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| 134 | Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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| 135 | of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
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| 136 | copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
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| 137 | thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
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| 138 |
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| 139 | Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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| 140 | of this document, or of portions of it,
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| 141 | under the above conditions, provided also that they
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| 142 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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| 144 |
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| 145 | Local variables:
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| 146 | mode: outline
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| 147 | paragraph-separate: "[ |
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| 148 | ]*$"
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| 149 | end:
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