GNU cpio - Summary
This project is part of the GNU Project.
GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. The archive can be another file on disk, a magnetic tape, a pipe, etc.
GNU cpio supports a variety of archive formats: binary, old ASCII,
new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar, POSIX.1 tar.
The package is moving toward merging with GNU tar into a POSIX-compatible pax program.
Registration Date: Mon 17 Nov 2003 09:04:16 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
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).
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