GNU cpio - News
posted by gray, Sat 12 Sep 2015 11:46:59 AM UTC - 0 replies
GNU cpio version 2.12 is available for download.
New in this release:
- Improved documentation.
- Manpages are installed by make install.
- New options for copy-out mode: --ignore-devno, --renumber-inodes, --device-independent or --reproducible.
posted by gray, Wed 10 Mar 2010 01:31:27 PM UTC - 0 replies
GNU cpio 2.11 available for download. Noteworthy changes in this release:
- Fix mt build.
- In copy-in mode, if directory attributes do not permit writing to it, setting them is delayed until the end of run. This allows to correctly extract files in such directories. ...
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posted by gray, Fri 29 Jun 2007 09:03:42 PM UTC - 0 replies
GNU cpio version 2.9 was released today. Starting from this release the package is licensed under the GPL version 3.
posted by gray, Fri 08 Jun 2007 10:52:34 AM UTC - 0 replies
GNU cpio 2.8 is available from ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors.
New in this release:
- Option --owner can be used in copy-out mode, allowing to uniformly override ownership of the files being added to the archive.
- Bugfixes:
- Symlinks were handled incorrectly in copy-out mode.
- Fix handling of large files.
- Fix setting the file permissions in copy-out mode.
- Fix CAN-2005-1111
posted by gray, Sat 21 Oct 2006 05:22:15 PM UTC - 0 replies
The version 2.7 of GNU cpio was released today. As usual, it is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio (and its mirrors).
posted by gray, Fri 17 Sep 2004 02:07:50 PM UTC - 0 replies
Cpio version 2.5.90 is available from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/cpio. This is an alpha release. A list of user-visible changes since version 2.5 follows:
- Added NLS support
- Improved configure script
- cpio --help output largely improved ...
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