1 $Id: CHANGES,v 1.14 1999/11/07 18:53:33 tiniou Exp $
3 Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released ???????????????)
4 ====================================================================
6 1. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
7 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
8 routines instead of system ones.
10 Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
11 ====================================================================
13 1. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
14 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
15 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
16 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
17 this and providing the patch.
19 Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
20 ====================================================================
22 1. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
23 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
25 2. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
26 easily verify the version he is using.
28 3. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
29 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
30 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
32 4. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
33 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
34 for submitting the bug report.
36 5. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
37 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
39 6. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
40 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
41 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
42 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
44 7. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
45 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
46 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
49 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
50 ===================================================================
52 1. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
55 2. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
56 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
58 3. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
59 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
60 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
61 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
62 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
64 4. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
65 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
67 5. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
68 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
69 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
71 6. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
73 7. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
74 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
77 8. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
78 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
79 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
80 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
81 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
82 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
84 9. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
85 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
88 10. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
89 included the current date/version in man pages.
91 11. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
92 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
93 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
94 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
95 the results canceled each other...
97 Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
98 ===================================================================
100 1. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
102 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
104 - several fixes in the man pages.
105 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
106 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
108 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
109 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
110 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
111 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
113 2. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
114 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
116 3. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
118 4. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
119 routines (only if available).
121 5. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
122 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
124 Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
125 ======================================================================
127 1. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
128 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
129 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
130 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
133 2. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
135 3. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
136 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
139 4. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
140 This works for me, needs further testing.
142 Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
143 ====================================================================
145 1. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
146 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
148 Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
149 ========================================
151 1. Use realpath() if available
155 Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
156 ========================================
158 1. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
161 2. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
163 3. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
165 Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
166 ======================================
168 1. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
170 2. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
172 3. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
174 4. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
175 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
177 5. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
178 distribution's one) to use autoconf
180 6. Fixed a few minor bugs
182 Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
183 ======================================
185 1. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
187 2. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
189 3. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
190 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
192 4. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
195 5. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
197 6. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
198 correctly files ending by a hole.
200 Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
201 ======================================
203 1. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
204 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
206 Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
207 ======================================
209 1. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
211 2. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
213 Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
214 ======================================
216 1. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
218 Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
219 ======================================
221 1. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
223 2. Enabled optimization again.
225 Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
226 =====================================
228 1. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
230 Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
231 ====================================
233 1. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
234 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
235 use the mntent functions).
237 2. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
238 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
239 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
240 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
243 3. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
244 filesystems like the BSD version.
246 4. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
249 Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
250 ====================================
252 1. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
254 2. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
256 3. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
259 4. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.