- Some new flags, e.g. -J for lzma compression and --lzop.
- transformation scope flags
Testsuite fixes from upstream CVS.
* Drop workarounds for no longer supported FreeBSD releases.
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- Update to 1.20.
Notable changes: This release adds support for lzma compression
and the -a option to select the compression algorithm based on
the suffix of the archive file name.
supports them. This is determined by running ``configure --help'' in
do-configure target and set the shell variable _LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS
which is then passed to CONFIGURE_ARGS.
- Remove --mandir and --infodir in ports' Makefile where applicable
Few ports use REINPLACE_CMD to achieve the same effect, remove them too.
- Correct some manual pages location from PREFIX/man to MANPREFIX/man
- Define INFO_PATH where necessary
- Document that .info files are installed in a subdirectory relative to
PREFIX/INFO_PATH and slightly change add-plist-info to use INFO_PATH and
subdirectory detection.
PR: ports/111470
Approved by: portmgr
Discussed with: stas (Mk/*), gerald (info related stuffs)
Tested by: pointyhat exp run
* Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode.
* Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental.
* Fix --occurrence.
* Scope of --transform and --strip-components options.
* End-of-volume script can send the new volume name to tar.
* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files".
* The --exclude-cache option now excludes the directories themselves, too.
* Support for reading ustar type 'N' logical records has been removed.
* Race conditions around 'tar -x --same-owner' have been fixed.
Incompatible changes:
* No globbing by default when extracting from or listing an archive.
* -l is now an alias of --check-links
Miscellaneous new options and bug fixes. For a complete list, see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-10/msg00031.html
PAX extended headers. By tricking a user into processing a specially
crafted tar archive, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user.
Security: CVE-2006-0300
Approved by: portmgr (erwin)
Obtained from: Ubuntu
Notable changes in this release:
- Support for POSIX.1-2001 and ustar archive formats.
- Various option flag changes.
- New message translations.
- Bug fixes.
