tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility HOWTO

ChangeLog


2011/07/17	- 1.18 -> 1.26
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1
		  and 13.37, removed older
		- Use ftpmirror.gnu.org instead of ftp.gnu.org
		- Remove tar-x.x symlinks in /bin before 'make install'
2007/08/28	- 1.16.1 -> 1.18
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.0
2007/03/16	- Note about trouble building the old version
2007/02/06	- 1.15.1 -> 1.16.1
		- Removed gawk, sed, grep links (now at the top)
		- Updated Slackware note for 10.2 and 11.0
Apr 4, 2006	- Fixed broken howto links
		- Only run removepkg if it exists
		- Remove the ~/src/tar-1.13 directory before extracting
		  it
		- Make sure your non-root account can write to all files
		  in the source directory
Jul 28, 2005	- Added backup download URL to ibiblio
		- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
		- Run chown -R root:root on the source directory when
		  $UID = 0 (when you're logged in as root)
May 10, 2005	- Updated Slackware note for 10.1
		- Removed gcc, make, binutils, fileutils/coreutils links
		- Added a link to the gmime howto
		- Changed download URLs from ftp to http
		- Changed md5sum verification to output OK (or not)
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
Dec 27, 2004	- 1.14 -> 1.15.1
		- Updated a few misc notes about gmime's uudecode, etc.
		- Since we install tar 1.13 first and use the shar.gz for it,
		  we can go back to using the tar.bz2 for 1.15.1
		- Added md5sum verification for those that don't have gpg
		  installed
Jun 17, 2004	- 1.13.25 -> 1.14
		- Switched from tar.bz2 download to shar.gz, so you can
		  install it if you don't have an older version of tar
		  installed
		- Added prerequisites
		- Added gpg verification of tarball
		- Use mode 700 when creating ~/installed
		- Added installation of tar 1.13 as /bin/tar-1.13, for
		  Slackware's package tools
		- Added note about a problem with gmime's uudecode
Mar 25, 2003	- Added removal of old versions
		- Added reusing existing tarball (for rebuilding it)
		- Added --disable-nls to configure line, removal of old
		  .mo files
Apr 29, 2002	- First entry

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