diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 775d66b37..6ee8e13b4 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@
-->
+
+ 2013-10-14
+
+
+ [matthew] - Update to Tar 1.27. Fixes
+ #3409.
+
+
+
+
2013-10-08
diff --git a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
index 4a0d87088..dba96b8c8 100644
--- a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
+++ b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
@@ -184,9 +184,9 @@
-
+
TCL &tcl-version;
diff --git a/chapter05/tar.xml b/chapter05/tar.xml
index 37439d930..002dc228f 100644
--- a/chapter05/tar.xml
+++ b/chapter05/tar.xml
@@ -43,10 +43,6 @@
Installation of Tar
- Fix an incompatibility between this package and Glibc-&glibc-version;:
-
-sed -i -e '/gets is a/d' gnu/stdio.in.h
-
Prepare Tar for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/tools
diff --git a/chapter06/tar.xml b/chapter06/tar.xml
index 6001de6e3..f02d88867 100644
--- a/chapter06/tar.xml
+++ b/chapter06/tar.xml
@@ -44,10 +44,6 @@
patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-manpage-patch;
- Fix an incompatibility between this package and Glibc-&glibc-version;:
-
-sed -i -e '/gets is a/d' gnu/stdio.in.h
-
Prepare Tar for compilation:
FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 \
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 780f67fc2..43f2a7c96 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-
-
+
+
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index f0242a7e3..44f1ef148 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -509,10 +509,10 @@
-
-
-
-
+
+
+
+