On Saturday 19 August 2006 03:30, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>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...
If I was good at reading code, I'd like to see the comments that went along
with that patchset. A 1.14-2 was never available at gnu.org that I know
of. After the 1.14 fiasco, I made it a saturday evening job to check and
see if a new one was out, but it went from 1.14-1 directly to 1.15-1
ANAICT given the frequency of my checking.
>Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
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