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@xxxxxx> 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. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
