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author | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2004-05-10 11:36:40 +0000 |
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committer | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2004-05-10 11:36:40 +0000 |
commit | 289687bd1c491d5741baca95c964ecaf9a4d4a86 (patch) | |
tree | 2514b9a91813ecb4d049330789277f53e8924010 /README | |
parent | ee3b833d371b0554d9cf7f89b16633a2985aaca0 (diff) | |
download | tar-289687bd1c491d5741baca95c964ecaf9a4d4a86.tar.gz |
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@@ -46,6 +46,28 @@ in the environment before configuring (the behavior of `-[0-7]' or `-[0-7]lmh' options in `tar' are then derived automatically). Similarly, `DEFAULT_BLOCKING' can be preset to something else than 20. +** Selecting full pathname of the "rmt" binary. + +Previous versions of tar always looked for "rmt" binary using +hardcoded path "/etc/rmt". However, the "rmt" program included +in the distribution was installed under "$prefix/libexec/rmt". +To fix this discrepancy, tar now looks for "$prefix/libexec/rmt". +If you do not want this behavior, specify full path name of +"rmt" binary using DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable, e.g.: + +./configure DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND=/etc/rmt + +** Installing backup scripts. + +This version of tar is shipped with the shell scripts for producing +incremental backups (dumps) and restoring filesystems from them. +The name of the backup script is "backup". The name of the +restore script is "restore". They are installed in "$prefix/sbin" +directory. + +Use option --enable-backup-scripts to compile and install these +scripts. + ** `--disable-largefile' omits support for large files, even if the operating system supports large files. Typically, large files are those larger on 2 GB on a 32-bit host. @@ -169,9 +191,10 @@ and new `tar' features. * What's next? -In the future we will try to release tar-1.14 as soon as possible and -start merging with paxutils afterwards. We'll also try to rewrite -some parts of the documentation after paxutils has been merged. +GNU tar will be merged into GNU paxutils: a project containing +several utilities related to creating and handling archives in +various formats. The project will include tar, cpio and pax +utilities. * Bug reporting. |