Paul Bijnens schrieb:

>> Why not implement some check-routine into Amanda that checks for the
>> installed tar-release and gives a WARNING if a well-known problematic
>> release is found?
> 
> That would give a lot of false positives.
> 
> RedHat for example backports important bugfixes to earlier versions
> of programs.  And while the "tar --version" here says "1.14"
> Redhad has its own numbering scheme found by "rpm -q tar", resulting
> in "tar-1.14-9.RHEL4", on my machine.  And that version has all the
> known critical bugs fixed, included the one above.

Ok, then it has to get pointed out more clearly at installation-time
that the user has to check for a proper release by himself or something.

Users don't check the docs for problems they don't have/see, most of
them even don't check the docs if they actually have/see a problem ;-)

Stefan.