On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 at 11:17am, Frank Smith wrote

> Is there a list of known working/broken tar versions?  I remember
> discussions about versions < 1.13.19 not building indexes correctly
> (and was bit by that myself when I first started), and I saw some
> remarks about the latest (at some time) version not working.

1.13.25 is well known to be quite stable.

>   Just asking because in the last week Debian Sarge is now distributing
> tar 1.14.  My amanda at work is built to use a local version, but my
> home setup isn't.  I intend to test it with some restores, but if there
> are some subtle changes I might not notice until it's too late ;-).

ISTR some discussions in the past of 1.14 being OK.  Check the archives 
-- I think it was Gene.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University