1 libtar 1.2.13 - 2011/06/13
4 This is a maintenance release by Chris Frey, temporarily stepping in for
5 Mark Roth. These maintenance releases are git-based only and can be
6 found at: http://repo.or.cz/w/libtar.git
9 Fixed incorrect URL in readme
10 Added autoconf/ as macro dir
11 Added autogen.sh script to build a fresh configure
12 Renamed autoconf/aclocal.m4 to psg.m4 so aclocal isn't so confused
13 Removed m4 includes, and straightened out [] m4 quoting for modern autoconfs
14 Removed auto-generated files
15 Added datarootdir to Makefile.in's
17 Applied Marcin Gibula's patch fixing tar_extract_glob()
18 Changed root Makefile.in to Makefile.am, which make autoreconf workable
21 Use libtool to build dynamic library
24 Document stupidity of tartype_t in libtar.c.
27 Escape hyphens that should be minus signs in man pages.
30 Fix memory leak in th_get_pathname
31 Reduce memory used by libtar when extracting files.
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35 libtar 1.2.11 - 3/2/03
38 - updated autoconf macros, compat code, and listhash code
39 - fixed tar_extract_regfile() to pass mode argument to open()
40 (caused EPERM on Solaris NFS clients)
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45 libtar 1.2.10 - 12/15/02
49 - minor Makefile fixes
50 - fixed TH_ISREG() macro to not return true for hard links
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54 libtar 1.2.9 - 11/19/02
57 - fixed th_read() to return 1 on EOF
58 (thanks to Yves Crespin <Crespin.Quartz@WANADOO.FR> for the bug report)
59 - minor portability fixes
60 (thanks to Yves Crespin <Crespin.Quartz@WANADOO.FR> for the bug report)
61 - fixed segfault on extracting filenames with 8-bit ASCII characters
62 (thanks to Per Liden <per@FUKT.BTH.SE> for the patch)
63 - fixed TH_ISDIR() macro and th_get_mode() function to handle old
64 archives that don't set the typeflag field right for directories
65 - use 0777 instead of 0755 in mkdirhier()
66 (thanks to Yves Crespin <Crespin.Quartz@WANADOO.FR> for the bug report)
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70 libtar 1.2.8 - 9/13/02
73 - added "-I../listhash" to CPPFLAGS in libtar/Makefile.in
74 (thanks to Kris Warkentin <kewarken@QNX.COM> for the bug report)
75 - added .PHONY target to Makefile.in
76 (thanks to Steven Engelhardt <sengelha@YAHOO.COM> for the bug report)
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80 libtar 1.2.7 - 9/12/02
83 - fixed minor bugs in listhash code
84 (thanks to Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com> for the bug reports)
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88 libtar 1.2.6 - 9/10/02
91 - updated COPYRIGHT file
92 - do not check magic field by default
93 (replaced TAR_IGNORE_MAGIC option with TAR_CHECK_MAGIC to enable check)
94 - fixed th_get_mode() not to modify S_IFMT bits if they were already set
95 - fixed TH_IS*() macros to check the S_IFMT mode bits in addition to typeflag
96 (this allows us to handle old tar archives that set mode bits but not
97 typeflag field for directories and other special files)
98 - updated to autoconf-2.53
99 - restructured autoconf macros
100 - added "b" to gzoflags in gzopen_frontend() for win32 compatibility
101 (thanks to Kris Eric Warkentin <kewarken@QNX.COM> for reporting this)
102 - if O_BINARY is defined (as on win32), set that bit in oflags in tar_open()
103 (thanks to Kris Eric Warkentin <kewarken@QNX.COM> for reporting this)
104 - also use O_BINARY in when calling open() from tar_extract_regfile()
105 (based on patch from Graeme Peterson <gp@qnx.com>)
106 - added COMPAT_FUNC_MAKEDEV macro to handle 3-arg version of makedev()
107 (based on patch from Graeme Peterson <gp@qnx.com>)
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111 libtar 1.2.5 - 2/20/02
114 - updated to autoconf-2.52
115 - improved Makefile portability
116 - fixed memory leak in hard-link detection code
117 (thanks to Michael Kamp <kamp@HITT.NL> for the bug report)
118 - fixed memory leak in symlink handling code
119 (thanks to Michael Kamp <kamp@HITT.NL> for the bug report)
120 - fixed memory leak in GNU long filename code
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124 libtar 1.2.4 - 7/24/01
127 - code cleanups to make gcc -Wall happy
128 (thanks to Jim Knoble <jmknoble@POBOX.COM> for the patch)
129 - call utime() before chmod() in tar_set_file_perms() for cygwin
130 (thanks to Kris Eric Warkentin <kewarken@QNX.COM> for reporting this)
131 - added "-g" flag to trigger GNU extensions in libtar binary
132 - fixed buffer termination bugs in POSIX filename prefix encoding
133 (thanks to Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de> for reporting this)
134 - fixed bug in th_crc_calc() for filenames with 8-bit ASCII characters
135 (thanks to Hamdouni El Bachir <bach@zehc.net> for reporting the bug
136 and Antoniu-George SAVU <santoniu@libertysurf.fr> for the patch)
137 - fixed backwards conditional expression in th_read()
138 (thanks to Antoniu-George SAVU <santoniu@LIBERTYSURF.FR> for the patch)
139 - added new tar_open() options to replace compile-time settings:
140 TAR_IGNORE_EOT, TAR_IGNORE_MAGIC, TAR_CHECK_VERSION, TAR_IGNORE_CRC
141 (based on feedback from Kris Eric Warkentin <kewarken@QNX.COM>)
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145 libtar 1.2.3 - 6/26/01
148 - misc portability fixes for OpenBSD
149 - fixed libtar.h to work with C++ programs
150 - fixed tar_extract_file() to properly check for pre-existing symlinks
151 (based on patch from Per Lid?n <per@fukt.hk-r.se>)
152 - fixed hash creation in tar_init()
153 - replaced mkdirhier() with non-recursive version
154 - updated autoconf macros, compat code, and listhash code
155 - reformatted code for readability
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159 libtar 1.2.2 - 1/12/01
162 - fixed th_print_long_ls() to not truncate user and group names
163 - code cleanups to make -Wall happy
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167 libtar 1.2.1 - 1/8/01
170 - updated WSG_ENCAP autoconf macro
171 - fixed autoconf macros to behave properly when a config.cache file
173 - fixed doc/Makefile.in to create links during compilation, not
175 - fixed listhash manpage .so link lists
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182 - minor code cleanups
184 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
186 libtar 1.1.b8 - 1/2/01
189 - updated WSG_ENCAP autoconf macro
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193 libtar 1.1.b7 - 12/13/00
196 - fixed autoconf snprintf() test to make sure it NUL-terminates
198 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
200 libtar 1.1.b6 - 11/30/00
203 - added $(DESTDIR) to Makefiles
204 - Makefile changes to support WSG_PKG and WSG_ENCAP autoconf macros
205 - changed lib/output.c to use strftime() where available
207 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
209 libtar 1.1.b5 - 10/29/00
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216 libtar 1.1.b4 - 10/29/00
219 - more directory reorganization
220 - minor Makefile cleanups
221 - minor portability fixes
222 - added function typecasting to avoid compiler warnings
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226 libtar 1.1.b3 - 10/26/00
232 - minor directory structure changes because of CVS setup
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236 libtar 1.1.b2 - 10/5/00
239 - added --without-zlib configure option
240 - minor portability fixes
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244 libtar 1.1.b1 - 8/21/00
248 - implemented tar_fdopen()
249 - implemented tar_fd()
250 - added TAR **t argument to tar_open() instead of returning dynamic memory
251 - if TAR_NOOVERWRITE is set in options and O_CREAT is set in oflags,
252 tar_open() automatically sets O_EXCL as well
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256 libtar 1.1.b0 - 7/10/00
260 - replaced internal table of tar file types with a tartype_t passed to
261 tar_open() by the caller
262 (allows file access methods to be defined dynamically)
263 - fixed tar_append_tree() to grok normal files as well as directories
264 - replaced mk_dirs_for_file() with mkdirhier() from epkg
265 - replaced strtok_r() with strsep()
266 - updated list/hash code to new interface
269 - added aclocal.m4 to clean up configure.in
270 - minor portability fixes related to lib/fnmatch.c
272 - fixed a bug in tar_open() where the result of open() was being
273 checked for 0 instead of -1 to detect error
275 - updated libtar driver program to handle both .tar.gz and ordinary .tar