[ANNOUNCE] xfsdump v3.1.3

[ANNOUNCE] xfsdump v3.1.3

[Rich Johnston]

Version 3.1.3 of xfsdump has been released.

The source code can be accessed via git using this URL:

     git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/cmds/xfsdump.git

A gzipped-tar archive of the source code is available here:

     ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/xfsdump-3.1.3.tar.gz

The development tree previously hosted on kernel.org for this code has 
been deprecated:

     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsdump-dev.git

Below is a summary (from the doc/CHANGES file) of changes
since release 3.1.2:

xfsdump-3.1.3 (08 May 2013)
         - Fix a segfault in xfsrestore when a path name is too long,
           thanks to Nigel Tamplin.
         - Fix a backward compatibility problem.  Dumps created with
           version 3.1.2 where extended attributes are in use failed
           to restore with v3.1.0 due to file header checksum errors.
           Thanks to Fugazzi for reporting.
         - Refactored release scripts to conform to using git archive.
         - Changed the build process so that 'make deb' uses the same
           process of creating a source tree as the release script.

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfsdump v3.1.3

[Ben Myers]

Hey,

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 02:13:18PM -0500, Rich Johnston wrote:
> Version 3.1.3 of xfsdump has been released.
> 
> The source code can be accessed via git using this URL:
> 
>     git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/cmds/xfsdump.git
> 
> A gzipped-tar archive of the source code is available here:
> 
>     ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/xfsdump-3.1.3.tar.gz

David Kaylor pointed out that the posted signature for this tarball
fails verification.  I tracked this down to the fact that I ran 'make
deb' after running the release script but before posting the tarball.
'make deb' regenerated the tar.gz and gzip put an updated timestamp in
the header so the tarball no longer matched the signature.  However the
contents of the tarballs are otherwise identical, so I've moved the old
.sig out of the way, signed the tarball that was posted, and uploaded
the new .sig.

It might be nice for 'make dist' to create an identical .tar.gz for
identical inputs.  gzip can be told not to update it's timestamp with
the -n option, but our current method of generating the tarball relies
upon .gitcensus being created on each run and this is currently
$(_FORCE) and required for the 'make deb' target.  I don't have a
solution at this time, so for the time being 'make dist' is creating
non-identical tarballs for identical inputs at each invocation.
Suggestions are welcome.

Thanks to David for his attention to detail.

Regards,
Ben

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