| 1 | Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
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| 3 | * Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | * Add support for restoring file time stamps to sub-second resolution,
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| 6 | if the file system supports this.
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| 7 |
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| 8 | * Add support for restoring the attributes of symbolic links, for
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| 9 | OSes like FreeBSD that have the lutimes and lchmod functions.
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| 10 |
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| 11 | * --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.
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| 12 |
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| 13 | * Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers,
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| 14 | so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and
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| 15 | --multi-volume) may be used with POSIX archives.
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| 16 |
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| 17 | * Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
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| 18 | This would unify paxutils with tar.
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| 19 |
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| 20 | * Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation.
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| 21 |
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| 22 | * Add an option to remove files that compare successfully.
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| 23 |
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| 24 | From: Roesinger Eric <ROESINGE@tce.com>
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| 25 | Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:43:43 -0500
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| 27 | It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
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| 28 | to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
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| 29 |
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| 30 | * Add tests for the new functonality.
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| 31 |
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| 32 | * Consider this:
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| 34 | From: Dennis Pund
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| 35 | Subject: TAR suggestion...
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| 36 | Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST)
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| 37 |
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| 38 | What I would like to do is:
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| 40 | foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar
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| 41 |
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| 42 | where 'foo' is a program that retrieves the archive and streams it
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| 43 | to stdout and bar is a program that streams the stdin to CDR.
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| 44 |
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| 45 | (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html)
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| 49 | * Copyright notice
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| 50 |
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| 51 | Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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| 52 |
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| 53 | This file is part of GNU tar.
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| 54 |
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| 55 | GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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| 56 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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| 57 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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| 58 | any later version.
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| 59 |
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| 60 | GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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| 61 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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| 62 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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| 63 | GNU General Public License for more details.
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| 64 |
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| 65 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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| 66 | along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
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| 67 | the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
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| 68 | Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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| 69 |
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| 71 |
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| 72 | Local variables:
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| 73 | mode: outline
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| 74 | paragraph-separate: "[ |
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| 75 | ]*$"
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| 76 | end:
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