Would it be possible to update the version of tar currently in cygwin? The current version is 1.26, which, in the GNU project anyway, was released in March 2011. I need a version with a bug fix done in Nov 2011, so 1.27 or the latest (1.27-1) should do.
The bug fix fixes (among other things) the use of the -diff option with an archive created with -g (listed-incremental). A related post from Sergey Poznyakoff, one of the GNU tar maintainers, will found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar%40gnu.org/msg03446.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
