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@@ -1,7 +1,33 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-10 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-11 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org> + +* --test-label behavior + +In case of a mismatch, `tar --test-label LABEL' exits with code 1, +not 2 as it did in previous versions. + +The `--verbose' option used with `--test-label' provides additional +diagnostics. + +Several volume labels may be specified in a command line, e.g.: + + tar --test-label -f archive 'My volume' 'New volume' 'Test volume' + +In this case, tar exits with code 0 if any one of the arguments +matches the actual volume label. + +* --label used with --update + +The `--label' option can be used with `--update' to prevent accidental +update of an archive: + + tar -rf archive --label 'My volume' . + +This did not work in previous versions, in spite of what the docs said. + + version 1.23 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-03-10 * Record size autodetection @@ -694,7 +720,7 @@ tar. * New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian), hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional). - The code 'no' for Norwegian (BokmÃ¥l) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. + The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. * Bug fixes. @@ -1019,7 +1045,7 @@ version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08. but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils. Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2. -Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04. +Version 1.12 - François Pinard, 1997-04. Sensitive matters * Use shell globbing patterns for --label, instead of regular expressions. @@ -1062,7 +1088,7 @@ Various changes Many bugs are squashed, while others still run free. -Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06. +Version 1.11.8 - François Pinard, 1995-06. * Messages available in French, German, Portuguese and Swedish. * The distribution provides a rudimentary Texinfo manual. |