In addition to a number of bug fixes and minor changes:
* --numeric-owner (ignore user/group names on create and extract)
* -S (sparsify files on extraction)
* -s (regex filename substitutions)
* Use new libarchive 'linkify' to get correct hardlink handling for
both old and new cpio formats
* Rework 'copy' test to be insensitive to readdir() filename ordering
Most of the credit for this work goes to Joerg Sonnenberger, who
has been duplicating features from NetBSD's 'pax' program.
files if the existing file is newer than the archive entry).
Currently if any files are ignored, bsdtar will exit with a non-zero
exit status; this is likely to change in the future, but requires some
API changes in libarchive.
Discussed with: kientzle
Obtained from: tarsnap
* --format can be used with -r or -u
* -o is a synonym for --format=ustar when used with -c, -r, or -u
Also, fix the erroneous sanity check that suppressed --format with -r or -u.
GNU tar changed -l to match SUSv2 a couple of years ago,
so bsdtar no longer needs to pander to this particular GNUism.
Thanks to: Debian maintainers
MFC after: 7 days
* Implement --use-compress-program using new libarchive feature.
* Minor portability improvement by adjusting casts used to
print out uids, gids, and device numbers.
Thanks to: Joerg Sonnenberger for the --use-compress-program implementation.
MFC after: 15 days
option is undocumented because it does nothing. It does nothing
because bsdtar never needs it. It is accepted because gnutar does
sometimes need it and many scripts use it.
Reported by: Pawel Jakub Dawidek
switches to support selecting files by time of modification.
Special thanks to: Steven M. Bellovin, Rich $alz, and Jim Berets,
authors of the public-domain getdate.y date-parsing code.
synonym for --format. Update the man page to reflect this. While
I'm here, change the man page to document "tar" rather than "bsdtar,"
update some comments about -l compatibility and fix a few grammar nits.
For -l, upset everyone by breaking it. Specifically, -l now produces
a lengthy error message that suggests --check-links (POSIX -l) or
--one-file-system (GNU -l) instead. However, if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set,
use the POSIX interpretation.
For -o, please everyone by making it work both ways:
* -xo uses POSIX behavior
* -co uses "almost GNU" behavior (as close as we can get until
libarchive implements a true V7 tar format)
This requires some non-trivial surgery to the options parsing.
While here, let people who only have getopt() access long options
through the -W longopt=value convention.
--exclude='pattern'.
I should have added this a long time ago, since it's so useful for testing.
In particular, it allows me to select a few entries from a troublesome
archive so that I can easily focus my debugging efforts:
bsdtar -czf new.tgz --include='*foo*' @old.tgz
While I'm here, add a couple of extra sanity-checks to
the argument parsing (reject -j -z, for instance) and
update the docs a bit.
Requested by: most everyone ;-)
