GNU tar installation?

[Erik P. Olsen]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 19:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:06:30 +0100, Erik P. Olsen <erik at epo.dk> wrote:
> > Excuse me for asking a newbie question, but I am a little uneasy about
> > what to do.
> > 
> > I am running FC3 which comes with GNU tar version 1.14. I plan to
> > upgrade it to version 1.15.1 which comes in tar format only.
> 
> one important question. why do you want to upgrade. if the  newer
> version of tar has an important feature that you want then you might
> want to suggest this as an RFE against tar in bugzilla.redhat.com.

On the amanda mailing list is reported a problem with tar 1.13 which
makes recovery fail. The problem is solved with tar 1.15.1.

> if you want to upgrade, one way to do it is to check if the
> development tree has a newer version and install that. post the
> results

The development tree has tar 1.14 only.

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Regards,
Erik P. Olsen