My Debian lenny system has tar 1.20, and tar --help shows that as
a run-time option:

      --no-check-device      do not check device numbers when creating
                             incremental archives

Frank


Toomas Aas wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
>> I can't find anything in the latest amanda, but tar-1.20's NEWS file says it 
>> now has a --no-check-device configuration option.
>>
>> Unforch:
>> [amanda@coyote tar-1.20]$ ./configure --no-check-device
>> configure: error: unrecognized option: --no-check-device
>> Try `./configure --help' for more information.
>>
>> Same if root.  What the heck?
>>
> 
> I haven't looked at tar 1.20 myself, but I guess --no-check-device is a 
> run-time, not configure-time option.
> 
> --
> Toomas
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