From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 3 15:14:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.deltanet.com (mail.deltanet.com [216.237.144.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621F237B405; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 15:14:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net (da001d0709.lax-ca.osd.concentric.net [64.0.146.198]) by mail.deltanet.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g53LqDO21779; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 14:52:15 -0700 Received: by mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 379C4512A; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 15:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CEC24DD8; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 15:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 15:14:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Herman X-X-Sender: pherman@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, , Subject: Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system In-Reply-To: <3CFBCA0A.32542302@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: <20020603151118.X80740-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > However, before proceeding I would like to get an advice with regard > to the most appropriate procedure for doing the upgrade. This came up in another list somewhere (don't know off hand), but you might also consider having tar wrap around pax. OpenBSD has already done this, so your work might be already done! :-) -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message