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Tar 1.25
Item posted by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray> on Sun 07 Nov 2010 04:42:29 PM UTC.
Tar 1.25 is available for download. This is mainly a bug-fix release addressing the bugs found in the previous version 1.24:
- Fix extraction of empty directories with the -C option in effect.
- Fix extraction of device nodes.
- Make sure name matching occurs before eventual name transformation.
- Fix the behavior of tar -x --overwrite on hosts lacking O_NOFOLLOW.
- Improve the testsuite.
Alternative decompression programs
If extraction from a compressed archive fails because the corresponding compression program is not installed and the following two conditions are met, tar retries extraction using an alternative decompressor:
- Another compression program supported by tar is able to handle this compression format.
- The compression program was not explicitly requested in the command line by the use of such options as -z, -j, etc.
For example, if compress is not available, tar will try gzip.
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