From the dar-announce mailing list: =========================== See at the bottom of this email the list of all change and let me first warn you about an important bug found three days ago (all older version of dar are affected): If you were using dar to backup in one time several mounted filesystems, if hard links were present on one of theses filesystems (most Unix users should assume yes, while windows users should not be concerned) and if you were using filtering (-X, -I, -P, -g, -[, -] option) that lead to exclude some hard linked files, it is strongly recommended to consider the case where the bug #1667400 expressed (for details refer to Sourceforge): In brief, some files may have been considered as a hard link to an inode of same number but located on another filesystem, leading to your data not being backed up properly. Dar's test (-t) option cannot report any problem as the resulting archive stayed well generated while Dar's diff (-d) option of older releases suffered from the same bug (same code used to read a filesystem). In consequence, as more as you have hard links as more it is recommended to recycle your backup quickly (at least make a full backup should be OK). If however the filesystem under backup does not change often, you can use Dar's diff option (-d) of release 2.3.3 to check for the occurrence of this bug, be aware that it may report differences due to real changes in the filesystem as well as improperly saved hard linked data due to this bug. =========================== Therefore, dar 2.3.3 should be marked stable. That is, if there are no other problems. Dar 2.2.6 has been the latest stable for quite some time. Is there a reason for that? Reproducible: Always
app-backup/dar-2.3.3 compiles fine for me. Also 2.2.6 has an issue which 2.3.3 apparently fixes. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179396
sorry for delay. all archs: test and mark stable app-backup/dar-2.3.3 app-backup/kdar-3_pre20060314
Are messages like this normal? And also the missing icons? KDarController::createArchive(): need to implement Else: runs fine on x86 and amd64
dar-2.3.3 stable. However kdar-3_pre looks incomplete as Christian notes and we have no previous sparc stable so i'll leave it as it currently is.
x86/amd64 for all of them, we have no choice if we want dar 2.3* stable (and we really want that).
ppc stable. closing as we are the last arch.
*** Bug 179976 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
