[arch-dev-public] [signoff] tar 1.21-1

[Eric Bélanger]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> a new upstream release that adds some additional features. please
> signoff when everything is still fine.
>
> -AndyRTR
>
>
>
> version 1.21 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-12-27
>
> * New short option -J
>
> A shortcut for --lzma.
>
> * New option --lzop
>
> * New option --no-auto-compress
>
> Cancels the effect of previous --auto-compress (-a) option.
>
> * New option --no-null
>
> Cancels the effect of previous --null option.
>
> * Compressed format recognition
>
> If tar is unable to determine archive compression format, it falls
> back to using archive suffix to determine it.
>
> * VCS support.
>
> Using --exclude-vcs handles also files used internally by Bazaar,
> Mercurial and Darcs.
>
> * Transformation scope flags
>
> Name transformation expressions understand additional flags that
> control type of archive members affected by them.  The flags are:
>
>  - r
>   Apply transformation to regular archive members.
>
>  - s
>   Apply transformation to symbolic link targets.
>
>  - h
>   Apply transformation to hard link targets.
>
> Corresponding upper-case letters negate the meaning, so that
> `H' means ``do not apply transformation to hard link targets.''
>
> The scope flags are listed in the third part of an `s' expression,
> e.g.:
>
>   tar --transform 's|^|/usr/local/|S'
>
> Default is `rsh', which means that transformations are applied to
> both regular archive members and to the targets of symbolic and hard
> links.  If several transform expressions are used, the default flags
> can be changed using `flags=' statement before the expressions, e.g.:
>
>   tar --transform 'flags=S;s|^|/usr/local/|S'
>
> * Bugfixes
>
> ** The --null option disabled handling of tar options in list files.
> This is fixed.
> ** Fixed record size autodetection.  If detected record size differs
> from the expected value (either default, or set on the command line),
> tar always prints a warning if verbosity level is set to 1 or greater,
> i.e. if either -t or -v option is given.
>

tar still works. signoff both arches.