On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 18 August 2006 11:35, Toomas Aas wrote:
> >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.

As Debian stable has 1.14-2.2, I guess there do exist good (patched)
versions...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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