This commit is contained in:
Sergey Poznyakoff
2006-12-07 14:34:48 +00:00
parent 8ec119a27f
commit f23bc997fd

12
NEWS
View File

@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
version 1.16.1
* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e.
files the appearance of which in a directory means that the directory
should not be archived.
* The --exclude-cache option excludes directories that contain the
CACHEDIR.TAG file from being archived. Previous versions excluded
only the directory contents, while the directories themselves were
still added to the archive.
* Support for reading ustar type 'N' header logical records has been removed.
This GNU extension was generated only by very old versions of GNU 'tar'.
Unfortunately its implementation had security holes; see
@@ -13,6 +24,7 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
files extracted by 'tar -x --same-owner' (or plain 'tar -x', when
running as root) to be accessed by users that they shouldn't have been.
version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
* After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were