1 GNU cpio NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2007-06-08
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7 Version 2.8 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-08
9 * Option --owner can be used in copy-out mode, allowing to uniformly override
10 ownership of the files being added to the archive.
14 ** Symlinks were handled incorrectly in copy-out mode.
15 ** Fix handling of large files.
16 ** Fix setting the file permissions in copy-out mode.
20 Version 2.7 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
22 * Improved error checking and diagnostics
25 ** Fixed CAN-1999-1572
26 ** Allow to use --sparse in both copy-in and copy-pass.
27 ** Fix bug that eventually caused copying out the same hard-linked
28 file several times to archive.
29 ** Fix several LFS-related issues.
30 ** Fix Debian bug 335580.
33 Version 2.6 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20
37 * Improved configure script
39 * Improved invocation consistency checking and help output
41 * Printing warning about truncation of inode numbers is suppressed by
44 * New option --warning (-W) controls the level of output warnings:
46 -Wnone Disables all warnings
47 -Wtruncate Enable warning about truncation of the inode number
48 -Wall Enables all warnings
50 To disable a particular warning, prefix its name with 'no-', just
53 * New option --to-stdout extracts files to standard output.
55 * The output of `cpio --help' is largely improved.
58 ** If a file grew n bytes in copy-pass mode, these n bytes got prepended
59 to the contents of all subsequent files.
60 ** Padding the archive with zero bytes upon truncation of the file being
64 Major changes in version 2.5:
66 * bug fixes from Debian, Red Hat, and SuSE GNU/Linux Distribution patches
67 * --rsh-command option
69 Major changes in version 2.4:
71 * new texinfo documentation
72 * --sparse option to write sparse files
73 * --only-verify-crc option to verify a CRC format archive
74 * --no-absolute-paths option to ignore absolute paths
75 * --quiet option to supress printing number of blocks copied
76 * handle disk input errors more gracefully
78 Major changes in version 2.3:
80 * in newc and crc format archives, only store 1 copy of multiply linked files
81 * handle multiply linked devices properly
82 * handle multiply linked files with cpio -pl even when the source and
83 destination are on different file systems
84 * support HPUX Context Dependent Files
85 * read and write HPUX cpio archives
86 * read System V.4 POSIX tar archives and HPUX POSIX tar archives
87 * use rmdir, instead of unlink, to delete existing directories
89 Major changes in version 2.2:
91 * handle link counts correctly when reading binary cpio archives
92 * configure checks for some libraries that SVR4 needs
94 Major changes in version 2.1:
96 * cpio can access remote non-device files as well as remote devices
97 * fix bugs in the MS-DOS port
98 * add --swap equivalent to -b option
100 Version 2.0 adds the following features:
102 Support for the SVR4 cpio formats, which can store inodes >65535, and
103 for traditional and POSIX tar archives. Also adds these options:
105 -A --append append to instead of replacing the archive
106 -V --dot print a dot for each file processed
107 -H --format select archive format
108 -C --io-size select I/O block size in bytes
109 -M --message print a message at end of media volumes
110 --no-preserve-owner don't change files' owners when extracting
111 -R --owner set files' owners when extracting
112 -E --pattern-file list of shell filename patterns to process
113 -s --swap-bytes handle byte-order differences when extracting files
114 -S --swap-halfwords ditto
116 -I input archive filename
117 -k recognize corrupted archives (we alawys do it, though)
118 -O output archive filename
120 Some options of previous versions have been renamed in 2.0:
122 --binary was replaced by --format=bin
123 --portability was replaced by --format=odc
125 Some options have changed meaning in 2.0, for SVR4 compatibility:
127 -O used to select the binary archive format, now selects the output file
128 -V used to print the version number, now prints a dot for each file
130 Version 2.0 also fixes several bugs in the handling of files with
131 multiple links and of multi-volume archives on floppy disks.
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