On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, McGraw, Robert P. wrote:
> 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
`-l' wasn't recycled before 1.15.91, according to the changelog.
On a Debian testing box:
| tux$ tar --version
| tar (GNU tar) 1.15.91
| Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
| This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
| the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
| There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
|
| Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
| tux$ tar --help | grep -- -l
| -t, --list list the contents of an archive
| --test-label test the archive volume label and exit
| -g, --listed-incremental=FILE handle new GNU-format incremental backup
| --diff, --extract or --list and when a list of
| --force-local archive file is local even if it has a colon
| -L, --tape-length=NUMBER change tape after writing NUMBER x 1024 bytes
| -V, --label=TEXT create archive with volume name TEXT; at
| -l, --check-links print a message if not all links are dumped
| tux$
> > -----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)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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