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GNU cpio NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2004-12-20
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Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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See the end of file for copying conditions.
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Please send cpio bug reports to <bug-cpio@gnu.org>.
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Version 2.6
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* Added NLS support
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* Improved configure script
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* Improved invocation consistency checking and help output
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* Printing warning about truncation of inode numbers is suppressed by
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default. See below.
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* New option --warning (-W) controls the level of output warnings:
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-Wnone Disables all warnings
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-Wtruncate Enable warning about truncation of the inode number
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-Wall Enables all warnings
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To disable a particular warning, prefix its name with 'no-', just
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like in gcc.
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* New option --to-stdout extracts files to standard output.
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* The output of `cpio --help' is largely improved.
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* Bugfixes:
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** If a file grew n bytes in copy-pass mode, these n bytes got prepended
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to the contents of all subsequent files.
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** Padding the archive with zero bytes upon truncation of the file being
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archived was broken.
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Major changes in version 2.5:
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* bug fixes from Debian, Red Hat, and SuSE GNU/Linux Distribution patches
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* --rsh-command option
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Major changes in version 2.4:
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* new texinfo documentation
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* --sparse option to write sparse files
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* --only-verify-crc option to verify a CRC format archive
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* --no-absolute-paths option to ignore absolute paths
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* --quiet option to supress printing number of blocks copied
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* handle disk input errors more gracefully
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Major changes in version 2.3:
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* in newc and crc format archives, only store 1 copy of multiply linked files
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* handle multiply linked devices properly
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* handle multiply linked files with cpio -pl even when the source and
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destination are on different file systems
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* support HPUX Context Dependent Files
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* read and write HPUX cpio archives
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* read System V.4 POSIX tar archives and HPUX POSIX tar archives
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* use rmdir, instead of unlink, to delete existing directories
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Major changes in version 2.2:
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* handle link counts correctly when reading binary cpio archives
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* configure checks for some libraries that SVR4 needs
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Major changes in version 2.1:
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* cpio can access remote non-device files as well as remote devices
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* fix bugs in the MS-DOS port
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* add --swap equivalent to -b option
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Version 2.0 adds the following features:
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Support for the SVR4 cpio formats, which can store inodes >65535, and
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for traditional and POSIX tar archives. Also adds these options:
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-A --append append to instead of replacing the archive
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-V --dot print a dot for each file processed
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-H --format select archive format
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-C --io-size select I/O block size in bytes
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-M --message print a message at end of media volumes
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--no-preserve-owner don't change files' owners when extracting
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-R --owner set files' owners when extracting
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-E --pattern-file list of shell filename patterns to process
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-s --swap-bytes handle byte-order differences when extracting files
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-S --swap-halfwords ditto
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-b like -sS
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-I input archive filename
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-k recognize corrupted archives (we alawys do it, though)
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-O output archive filename
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Some options of previous versions have been renamed in 2.0:
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--binary was replaced by --format=bin
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--portability was replaced by --format=odc
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Some options have changed meaning in 2.0, for SVR4 compatibility:
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-O used to select the binary archive format, now selects the output file
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-V used to print the version number, now prints a dot for each file
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Version 2.0 also fixes several bugs in the handling of files with
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multiple links and of multi-volume archives on floppy disks.
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----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Copyright information:
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Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
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copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
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thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
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Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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of this document, or of portions of it,
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under the above conditions, provided also that they
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carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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