New tar available for testing (was Re: here is a patch for gnu tar incremental backup...)

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Sat Nov 8 21:04:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 06:45:32AM -0500, George Carrette wrote:
>Here is a fix for gnu tar incremental backup feature
>for the most recent cygwin that uses a 64-bit value for 
>the type ion_t
>
>This was done against the sources in release/tar/tar-1.13.25-3-src.tar.bz2

Thanks for the patch but I don't think it is quite right and I don't think
it catches everything.

I'm uploading a new version of tar for testing now.  I'd appreciate feedback
(to the cygwin list) on whether it solves the reported problem.

cgf

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