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+GNU cpio NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2010-03-10
+Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009,
+2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end of file for copying conditions.
+
+Please send cpio bug reports to <bug-cpio@gnu.org>.
+
+Version 2.11 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-03-10
+
+* Fix mt build.
+* In copy-in mode, if directory attributes do not permit writing to it,
+setting them is delayed until the end of run. This allows to correctly
+extract files in such directories.
+* In copy-in mode, permissions of a directory are restored if it
+appears in the file list after files in it (find . -depth). This fixes
+debian bug #458079.
+* Fix possible memory overflow in the rmt client code (CVE-2010-0624).
+
+
+Version 2.10 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2009-06-20
+
+* Ensure record headers are properly packed (fix builds on ARM).
+* Fix exit codes to reliably indicate success or failure of the operation.
+* Fix large file support.
+* Support MinGW builds (thanks to Robert Millan).
+* Minor bugfixes.
+
+
+Version 2.9 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-28
+
+* Licensed under the GPLv3.
+
+* Bugfixes:
+** Honor umask when creating intermediate directories, not specified
+in the archive (debian bug #430053)
+
+
+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
+
+* Improved configure script
+
+* Improved invocation consistency checking and help output
+
+* Printing warning about truncation of inode numbers is suppressed by
+default. See below.
+
+* New option --warning (-W) controls the level of output warnings:
+
+    -Wnone       Disables all warnings
+    -Wtruncate   Enable warning about truncation of the inode number
+    -Wall        Enables all warnings
+
+  To disable a particular warning, prefix its name with 'no-', just
+  like in gcc.
+
+* New option --to-stdout extracts files to standard output.
+
+* The output of `cpio --help' is largely improved.
+       
+* Bugfixes:
+** If a file grew n bytes in copy-pass mode, these n bytes got prepended
+to the contents of all subsequent files.
+** Padding the archive with zero bytes upon truncation of the file being
+archived was broken.
+
+
+Major changes in version 2.5:
+
+* bug fixes from Debian, Red Hat, and SuSE GNU/Linux Distribution patches
+* --rsh-command option
+
+Major changes in version 2.4:
+
+* new texinfo documentation
+* --sparse option to write sparse files
+* --only-verify-crc option to verify a CRC format archive
+* --no-absolute-paths option to ignore absolute paths
+* --quiet option to supress printing number of blocks copied
+* handle disk input errors more gracefully
+
+Major changes in version 2.3:
+
+* in newc and crc format archives, only store 1 copy of multiply linked files
+* handle multiply linked devices properly
+* handle multiply linked files with cpio -pl even when the source and 
+  destination are on different file systems
+* support HPUX Context Dependent Files
+* read and write HPUX cpio archives
+* read System V.4 POSIX tar archives and HPUX POSIX tar archives
+* use rmdir, instead of unlink, to delete existing directories
+
+Major changes in version 2.2:
+
+* handle link counts correctly when reading binary cpio archives
+* configure checks for some libraries that SVR4 needs
+
+Major changes in version 2.1:
+
+* cpio can access remote non-device files as well as remote devices
+* fix bugs in the MS-DOS port
+* add --swap equivalent to -b option
+
+Version 2.0 adds the following features:
+
+Support for the SVR4 cpio formats, which can store inodes >65535, and
+for traditional and POSIX tar archives.  Also adds these options:
+
+-A --append		append to instead of replacing the archive
+-V --dot		print a dot for each file processed
+-H --format		select archive format
+-C --io-size		select I/O block size in bytes
+-M --message		print a message at end of media volumes
+--no-preserve-owner	don't change files' owners when extracting
+-R --owner		set files' owners when extracting
+-E --pattern-file	list of shell filename patterns to process
+-s --swap-bytes		handle byte-order differences when extracting files
+-S --swap-halfwords	ditto
+-b			like -sS
+-I			input archive filename
+-k			recognize corrupted archives (we alawys do it, though)
+-O			output archive filename
+
+Some options of previous versions have been renamed in 2.0:
+
+--binary was replaced by --format=bin
+--portability was replaced by --format=odc
+
+Some options have changed meaning in 2.0, for SVR4 compatibility:
+
+-O used to select the binary archive format, now selects the output file
+-V used to print the version number, now prints a dot for each file
+
+Version 2.0 also fixes several bugs in the handling of files with
+multiple links and of multi-volume archives on floppy disks.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Copyright information:
+
+Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009,
+2010 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
+   copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
+   thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
+
+   Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
+   of this document, or of portions of it,
+   under the above conditions, provided also that they
+   carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
+
+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"
+end: