On Monday 11 April 2005 12:17, 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.
>  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 ;-).
>
>Thanks,
>Frank

ISTR, but don't take it to the bank, that 1.14 had some sort of a 
gotcha.  I never tried it myself however, so take that with a 
appropriate seasoning.  It sure didn't last too long before it was 
replaced with 1.15.1 though if thats any indicator.

I switched to the latest 1.15.1 about 6 months ago, and have had zilch 
problems with that version so far.  1.13-19 and 1.13-25 were also 
known to be good versions.

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