On Monday 11 April 2005 12:59, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>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.

Tweren't me Joshua, I went straight to 1.15.1 about 6 months back and 
its been fine, but I don't think I ever tried 1.14 at all.  It was 
pretty shortlived at gnu.org so that may be a clue that it wasn't 
quite right somehow.

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