On Friday 18 August 2006 11:35, Toomas Aas wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I'm planning to upgrade my Amanda server (currently 2.4.5) to 2.5.0p2.
>I'm wondering whether GNU tar 1.13.25 is still "officially" considered a
>good version, or is it absolutely required to upgrade to 1.15.1?
>
>I noticed that when installing Amanda from FreeBSD ports, the
>installation pulls in gtar from ports (archivers/gtar), which is
>currently version 1.15.1. However, my FreeBSD 5.4 seems to include GNU
>tar 1.13.25 installed with base FreeBSD system as /usr/bin/gtar and I
>was thinking, maybe there is no need to have two gtars on my system?
>
>BTW, I currently use dump for backups, so gtar is only used for indexes.

As near as I have been able to determine, they are interchangeable.
I've been using 1.15-1 since it came out. 1.13 plain, and any 1.14 will eat 
your lunch however.

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