[Bug-tar] Tar 1.14.90 released.

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hello,

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU tar 1.14.90. This is
an alpha release fixing bugs and inconsistencies found in version
1.14. The version is available from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar.

The MD5 checksums of the files are:

6c08694eec18a10cca6de1986b28e92b  tar-1.14.90.shar.gz
dd816b09dadaf6a4e9a46d22993f6d44  tar-1.14.90.tar.bz2
69eb91a6fe547efae46bfafa3ccd4eb8  tar-1.14.90.tar.gz

The list of user-visible changes since 1.14 follows:

* When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option
prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices
from being purged.

With the previous versions of tar it was dangerous to create
incremental dumps with --one-file-system option, since they
would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the
back up. This change fixes the bug.

* Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with
the GNU convention.

* Skipping archive members is sped up if the archive media supports
seeks.

* Restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option,
or some patterns. This is to prevent accidental restores.

* `tar --verify' prints a warning if during archive creation some of
the file names had their prefixes stripped off.

* New configure option --with-rmt allows to specify full path name to
the `rmt' utility. This supercedes DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable
introduced in version 1.14

* New configure variable DEFAULT_RMT_DIR allows to specify the directory
where to install `rmt' utility. This is necessary since modifying
--libexecdir as was suggested for version 1.14 produced a side effect: it
also modified installation prefix for backup scripts (if
--enable-backup-scripts was given).

* Bugfixes:
** Fixed flow in recognizing files to be included in incremental dumps.
** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option.
** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters.
Do not allow multivolume archives to begin with such filenames.
** If a member with link count > 2 was stored in the archive twice,
previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they
were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and
lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first
extracted copy in such cases.
** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option.
** Fixed verification of the created archives. 
** Fixed unquoting of the file names containing backslash escapes (previous
versions failed to recognize \a and \v).

Thanks to all of you for reporting bugs, sending contributions and
sharing your opinions.

Regards,
Sergey