Fedora 18 Update: tar-1.26-12.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-4053
2013-03-20 20:45:23
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Name        : tar
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.26
Release     : 12.fc18
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Summary     : A GNU file archiving program
Description :
The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can
restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive. Tar
can also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to update
or list files in the archive. Tar includes multivolume support,
automatic archive compression/decompression, the ability to perform
remote archives, and the ability to perform incremental and full
backups.

If you want to use tar for remote backups, you also need to install
the rmt package.

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Update Information:

This is aggregated update of several bugs fixed already in f19+.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Mar 19 2013 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com> - 2:1.26-12
- sync manpage help2man
- fix problems with big uids/gids and pax format (> 2^21) (#913406)
- fix creating sparse pax archives containing files of effective
  size >8GB (#516309)
- allow extracting single volume from multi-volume archive (#919897)
* Thu Oct 18 2012 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com> - 2:1.26-11
- fix bad behaviour of --keep-old-files and add --skip-old-files option
  (#799252)
* Wed Oct 10 2012 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com> 2:1.26-10
- allow to build tar in difference CoverityScan by forcing the '.gets' patch to
  be applied even in the run without patches
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #913406 - GNU tar is unable to store UID into posix format when UID > 2^21
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913406
  [ 2 ] Bug #516309 - tar fails (on large files >8GB?) with value # out of off_t range 0..8589934591 error
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516309
  [ 3 ] Bug #919897 - Extracting from a single volume in a multi-volume archive fails
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919897
  [ 4 ] Bug #799252 - Tar --keep-old-files option does not work as expected.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799252
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update tar' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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