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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/cpio/NEWS b/gnu/usr.bin/cpio/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2648c84 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/cpio/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ + +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. |