FYIW

I am running gnu tar 1.15.1 on my solaris hosts and it does not show a "-l"
parameter. I did tar --help | grep "\-l".

>From the --help I have the following:

      --check-links          print a message if not all links are dumped

On a RH X86_64 system I have gnu tar 1.14 and it shows 

-l, --one-file-system        stay in local file system when creating archive

Robert



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT 
> amanda DOT org]
> On Behalf Of Charles Stroom
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:25 PM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1
> 
> 
> on  Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:33:15 EDT
> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 05:56, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > >On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > >>
> > >> But be careful, at least the tar 1.15.91-2 from Debian is broken: it
> > >> ignores the --one-file-system option when doing incrementals, causing
> > >> exorbitant backup sizes for any level > 0. I don't know about the
> > >> upstream version, but since this bug has been reported almost 2
> months
> > >> ago, I'm afraid that one is broken, too.
> > >
> > >Apparently the problem is more subtle. Thanks to the Debian bug
> tracking
> > >system, I noticed this:
> > >
> > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384508
> > >tar: -l option changed meaning, without any warning!
> > >
> > >Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> > >
> > >      Geert
> > >
> > Good Grief Charley Brown!
> >
> > Tar is supposed to be a stable, mature utility is it not?  I mean its
> what,
> > 30 years old, existing in the various *nix's long before gnu took over?
> > Whyinhell can't the folks over at gnu.org find something else to screw
> > with besides tar?  It doesn't _need_ to be on their WPA or CCC lists as
> a
> > makework project when there's nothing else to do around the office.
> >
> 
> On my Suse 10.0 system:
> 
> (2): cs> tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1
> (0): cs> tar -l dum dum
> tar: Semantics of -l option will change in the future releases.
> tar: Please use --one-file-system option instead.
> 
> So, at least there were warnings (not really an excuse I think)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Charles
> 
> 

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