GNU cpio - Summary
This software 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, Sun 14 Jan 2024 12:21:41 PM UTC
GNU cpio version 2.15 is available for download. This is a bug-fixing release. Short summary of changes:
- Fix the operation of --no-absolute-filenames --make-directories.
- Restore access and modification times of symlinks in copy-in and copy-pass modes.
posted by gray, Mon 01 May 2023 06:32:18 PM UTC
GNU cpio version 2.14 is available for download.
New in this version:
New option --ignore-dirnlink
Valid in copy-out mode, it instructs cpio to ignore the actual number of links reported for each directory member and always store 2 instead.
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posted by gray, Wed 06 Nov 2019 08:20:41 AM UTC
GNU cpio version 2.13 is available for download. This version fixes the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-1197, CVE-2016-2037, CVE-2019-14866.
posted by gray, Sat 12 Sep 2015 11:46:59 AM UTC
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.
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