Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:45:38 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> To: "Walter C. Pelissero" <walter@pelissero.org> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <20011127144343.W421-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <15363.38257.236253.85237@hyde.lpds.sublink.org>
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: WCP>David O'Brien writes: WCP> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:18:42PM +0000, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: WCP> > > How about adding the nodump flag processing in tar? WCP> > WCP> > This would be a *bad* idea. It would diverge our tar even more WCP> > than it already is -- which is so bad it isn't trival to update to WCP> > the latest version (ours is many years behind). WCP> WCP>Does it mean we can't modify the BSD tar because it's already too WCP>different from the GNU tar, but at the same time we don't upgrade to WCP>the new GNU tar because it might require too much work adapting the WCP>old mods to the new code? WCP> WCP>Am I wrong or this means the BSD tar code is frozen? WCP> WCP>Do you have a list of discrepancies (not a diff) between the current WCP>BSD tar and the version of GNU tar it's based on? We might find out WCP>the new GNU tar doesn't need as much hacking as the old one needs. Perhaps it makes sense to switch to star instead? The last version is Posix conform, supports extended headers and ACLs. According to the star developer (Joerg Schilling) GNU tar is severly broken. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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