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

[Dan McGee]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Seems to work OK here as well on i686.

-Dan