What's new in Tardy 1.27
May 28, 2013
- There is now a tarball on the web site with no debian/ directory, to make it easier for downstream packagers.
- There is now a debian/watch file, in main tarball.
- There is now a test tarballs > 2GB. This was fixed back in i1.25.D012
New in Tardy 1.26 (Jul 9, 2012)
- The tardy(1) command now understands ZX compression for both reading
- and writing, symmetric with how it handles gzip comporession.
- A memory scribble deep within the string code has been fixed. It was
- related to how it split the hash table when growing the size.
- Tardy now uses 64-bit file sizes consistently.
- The tardy(1) commandis now able to use bzip2 compression on input
- and output, symmetric with its gzip compression handling.
- Emanuel Haupt discovered an incorrect function
- prototype, that caused build problems on some 32-bit systems.
- Dagobert Michelsen discovered that Solaris needs
- more #include lines.
- Dagobert Michelsen discovered a build problem with
- the memmem replacement function.
New in Tardy 1.25 (Nov 14, 2011)
- Dagobert Michelsen discovered that several string functions were undeclared on Solaris, causing build problems; and that there was no replacement memmem() function for systems that didn't have one.
New in Tardy 1.24 (Oct 4, 2011)
- The tardy(1) command is now more tolerant of tar(5) archives that contain regular files labeled LD_DIRECTORY instead of LD_NORMAL.
New in Tardy 1.22 (May 14, 2011)
- Thomas contributed a patch to detect reading
- from a terminal, or writing to a terminal. These are usually indica-
- tions that the user has failed to supply a command line argument.
- Tardy is nowable to read and write long file names in ar(1) ar-
- chives.
- A bug has been fixed in the BSD ar(1) format archives, the file pad-
- ding has been corrected to 2-byte boundaries.
- The ar(1) padding now uses newlines, to be compatible with GNU binu-
- tils.
- The ./configure script will now fail if libexplain has not been
- installed, rather than failing later in the build.
New in Tardy 1.20 (May 25, 2010)
- build problem on FreeBSD has been fixed.
- A build problem on Debian has been fixed.
New in Tardy 1.18 (Feb 11, 2010)
- Numerous build glitches and warnings have been fixed.
- There is a new tardy -exclude option that may be used to exclude (remove) files from the archive.
New in Tardy 1.17 (Jan 5, 2009)
- A build problem with GCC 4.3 has been fixed.