From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 23 18:54:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26758 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26750 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:54:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA00812; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806240155.SAA00812@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: blapp@attic.ch cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" , Tim Vanderhoek Subject: Re: GNU-Tar should be updated In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jun 1998 20:37:43 BST." <35900407.FC480B48@attic.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:55:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > tar: /dev/sd0s3: minor number too large; not dumped > > etc ... > > I think the tar *really should* be upgraded in /usr/bin ! Why? > Something like that is really ugly, a unix that can't backup > it's own files ... something like that I only know from M$ ... This is a failing of the tar format; a newer tar won't help you. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message