Date: 10 May 2001 11:36:48 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, kris@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, jeh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/pax cpio.1 getoldopt.c tar.1 Makefile ar_io.c ar_subs.c buf_subs.c cache.c extern.h file_subs.c ftree.c ftree.h gen_subs.c options.c pat_rep.c pax.1 pax.c pax.h tables.c tar.c tty_subs.c Message-ID: <xzppudhk0jz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20010508142246.A2823@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200105080619.f486J7Q73780@freefall.freebsd.org> <200105081544.f48FiMt73978@aldan.algebra.com> <20010508142246.A2823@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:44:19AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > Will our own tar be useable with Amanda after this changes are MFC-ed? > > Currently, Amanda port requires gtar :( > I don't know -- I'd certainly be interested to find out. Check the > man page below for the list of options the new version emulates. The > NetBSD version I'm merging now does GNU-style longopts too. The reason why Amanda requires gtar is that our tar is broken. In incremental mode (which Amanda uses extensively), it generates archives that gtar can't read, and sometimes even archives that it itself can't read. I reported this about a year, maybe a year and a half ago; nobody seemed to care. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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