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Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
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* Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
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* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.
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* Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers,
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so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and
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--multi-volume) may be used with POSIX archives.
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* Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
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This would unify paxutils with tar.
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* Remove command-line incompatibilities between GNU tar and UNIX tar
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as specified by UNIX98. The main problem is:
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l GNU tar doesn't cross filesystem boundaries.
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UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved.
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(GNU tar --check-links option)
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Currently tar prints a warning when this option is used. Sometime
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in the future its semantics will be changed to that of --check-links.
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In the meanwhile we should announce a phase-in period where "l"
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changes in semantics.
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* Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation.
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* Add an option to remove files that compare successfully.
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From: Roesinger Eric <ROESINGE@tce.com>
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:43:43 -0500
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It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
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to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
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* Add tests for the new functonality.
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* Consider this:
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From: Dennis Pund
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Subject: TAR suggestion...
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST)
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What I would like to do is:
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foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar
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where 'foo' is a program that retrieves the archive and streams it
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to stdout and bar is a program that streams the stdin to CDR.
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(http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html)
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* Copyright notice
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Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This file is part of GNU tar.
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GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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any later version.
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GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
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the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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