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Re: [Bug-tar] option --portability not recognized
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Gene Heskett |
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Re: [Bug-tar] option --portability not recognized |
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Sat, 15 May 2010 10:28:32 -0400 |
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On Saturday 15 May 2010, Bruno Haible wrote:
>Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
>> The fact that nobody has noticed
>> it before seems to indicate that these two options (--old-archive,
>> --portability) are not needed at all.
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>Indeed, the bug was introduced between versions 1.14 and 1.15.1, that is,
>6 years ago.
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>Bruno
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IIRC, that somehow bollixed up amanda's use of tar at the time. We had to
skip from 1.13 to 1.15.1 if my ancient wet ram can be trusted.
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Cheers, Gene
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