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diff --git a/contrib/cpio/NEWS b/contrib/cpio/NEWS deleted file mode 100644 index 857ae89..0000000 --- a/contrib/cpio/NEWS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,155 +0,0 @@ -GNU cpio NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2007-06-08 -Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -See the end of file for copying conditions. - -Please send cpio bug reports to <bug-cpio@gnu.org>. - -Version 2.8 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-08 - -* Option --owner can be used in copy-out mode, allowing to uniformly override -ownership of the files being added to the archive. - -* Bugfixes: - -** Symlinks were handled incorrectly in copy-out mode. -** Fix handling of large files. -** Fix setting the file permissions in copy-out mode. -** Fix CAN-2005-1111 - - -Version 2.7 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21 - -* Improved error checking and diagnostics - -* Bugfixes -** Fixed CAN-1999-1572 -** Allow to use --sparse in both copy-in and copy-pass. -** Fix bug that eventually caused copying out the same hard-linked -file several times to archive. -** Fix several LFS-related issues. -** Fix Debian bug 335580. - - -Version 2.6 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20 - -* Added NLS support - -* Improved configure script - -* Improved invocation consistency checking and help output - -* Printing warning about truncation of inode numbers is suppressed by -default. See below. - -* New option --warning (-W) controls the level of output warnings: - - -Wnone Disables all warnings - -Wtruncate Enable warning about truncation of the inode number - -Wall Enables all warnings - - To disable a particular warning, prefix its name with 'no-', just - like in gcc. - -* New option --to-stdout extracts files to standard output. - -* The output of `cpio --help' is largely improved. - -* Bugfixes: -** If a file grew n bytes in copy-pass mode, these n bytes got prepended -to the contents of all subsequent files. -** Padding the archive with zero bytes upon truncation of the file being -archived was broken. - - -Major changes in version 2.5: - -* bug fixes from Debian, Red Hat, and SuSE GNU/Linux Distribution patches -* --rsh-command option - -Major changes in version 2.4: - -* new texinfo documentation -* --sparse option to write sparse files -* --only-verify-crc option to verify a CRC format archive -* --no-absolute-paths option to ignore absolute paths -* --quiet option to supress printing number of blocks copied -* handle disk input errors more gracefully - -Major changes in version 2.3: - -* in newc and crc format archives, only store 1 copy of multiply linked files -* handle multiply linked devices properly -* handle multiply linked files with cpio -pl even when the source and - destination are on different file systems -* support HPUX Context Dependent Files -* read and write HPUX cpio archives -* read System V.4 POSIX tar archives and HPUX POSIX tar archives -* use rmdir, instead of unlink, to delete existing directories - -Major changes in version 2.2: - -* handle link counts correctly when reading binary cpio archives -* configure checks for some libraries that SVR4 needs - -Major changes in version 2.1: - -* cpio can access remote non-device files as well as remote devices -* fix bugs in the MS-DOS port -* add --swap equivalent to -b option - -Version 2.0 adds the following features: - -Support for the SVR4 cpio formats, which can store inodes >65535, and -for traditional and POSIX tar archives. Also adds these options: - --A --append append to instead of replacing the archive --V --dot print a dot for each file processed --H --format select archive format --C --io-size select I/O block size in bytes --M --message print a message at end of media volumes ---no-preserve-owner don't change files' owners when extracting --R --owner set files' owners when extracting --E --pattern-file list of shell filename patterns to process --s --swap-bytes handle byte-order differences when extracting files --S --swap-halfwords ditto --b like -sS --I input archive filename --k recognize corrupted archives (we alawys do it, though) --O output archive filename - -Some options of previous versions have been renamed in 2.0: - ---binary was replaced by --format=bin ---portability was replaced by --format=odc - -Some options have changed meaning in 2.0, for SVR4 compatibility: - --O used to select the binary archive format, now selects the output file --V used to print the version number, now prints a dot for each file - -Version 2.0 also fixes several bugs in the handling of files with -multiple links and of multi-volume archives on floppy disks. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -Copyright information: - -Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - - Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies - of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the - copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, - thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. - - Permission is granted to distribute modified versions - of this document, or of portions of it, - under the above conditions, provided also that they - carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. - -Local variables: -mode: outline -paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" -eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp) -time-stamp-start: "changes. " -time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d" -time-stamp-end: "\n" -end: |
