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Offline bmarkus

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GNU Tar update request
« on: October 25, 2010, 01:30:51 AM »
tar.tcz (1.22) in repo is more than 1 year old. Upstream just released 1.24 WOuld be good to have an update, 1.23 fixed several bugs already.
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Re: GNU Tar update request
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2010, 06:33:28 AM »
Ok, I will get to it shortly.

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Re: GNU Tar update request
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2010, 04:38:44 AM »
tar 1.25 is out which fixes some annoying bugs that tar 1.24 has such as:
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Fix extraction of empty directories with the -C option in effect

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Re: GNU Tar update request
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2010, 06:37:50 AM »
Ok, I will get to it shortly too.