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-GNU cpio NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2004-12-20
-Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+GNU cpio NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2007-06-08
+Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of file for copying conditions.
Please send cpio bug reports to <bug-cpio@gnu.org>.
-Version 2.6
+Version 2.8 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-08
+
+* Option --owner can be used in copy-out mode, allowing to uniformly override
+ownership of the files being added to the archive.
+
+* Bugfixes:
+
+** Symlinks were handled incorrectly in copy-out mode.
+** Fix handling of large files.
+** Fix setting the file permissions in copy-out mode.
+** Fix CAN-2005-1111
+
+
+Version 2.7 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
+
+* Improved error checking and diagnostics
+
+* Bugfixes
+** Fixed CAN-1999-1572
+** Allow to use --sparse in both copy-in and copy-pass.
+** Fix bug that eventually caused copying out the same hard-linked
+file several times to archive.
+** Fix several LFS-related issues.
+** Fix Debian bug 335580.
+
+
+Version 2.6 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20
* Added NLS support
@@ -107,7 +133,7 @@ multiple links and of multi-volume archives on floppy disks.
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Copyright information:
-Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
@@ -122,4 +148,8 @@ Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Local variables:
mode: outline
paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
+eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+time-stamp-start: "changes. "
+time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d"
+time-stamp-end: "\n"
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