[Bug-cpio] GNU cpio 2.7

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hello,

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU cpio version 2.7.

GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. It supports
various archive formats, among them: binary, ASCII (both old and new),
crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar, POSIX.1 tar. When extracting
from archives, cpio automatically recognizes which kind of archive it is
reading and can read archives created on machines with a different
byte-order.

For more information on cpio, including links to file downloads,
please see its web page: http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio
and the the project page http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cpio. 

GNU cpio is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio and
the mirror sites worldwide (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
for the list of those).

The MD5 checksums of the files are:

69ad6cb3d288aafe5f969f68d9fd0fb7  cpio-2.7.tar.bz2
c18eaf92f8dbc328509557c6f073605a  cpio-2.7.tar.bz2.sig
8858d344d392f32621032039e1bf7b95  cpio-2.7.tar.gz
7368e5dcd6603de1a5aa902c5f8612e4  cpio-2.7.tar.gz.sig

The list of user-visible changes follows:

* Improved error checking and diagnostics

* Bugfixes

** Previous version used umask 0 when creating files using the
-O (archive) or -F options, which created the files with mode
0666 (CAN-1999-1572). 

** Allow to use --sparse in both copy-in and copy-pass.

** Fix bug that caused copying out the same hard-linked
file several times to archive.

** Fix several LFS-related issues.

** Fix checksum calculation on 64-bit machines (Debian bug #335580).

Regards,
Sergey