Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 15:49:49 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system Message-ID: <20020603154949.A32931@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020603151118.X80740-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net>; from pherman@frenchfries.net on Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0700 References: <3CFBCA0A.32542302@FreeBSD.org> <20020603151118.X80740-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net>
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--qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0700, Paul Herman wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >=20 > > However, before proceeding I would like to get an advice with regard > > to the most appropriate procedure for doing the upgrade. >=20 > This came up in another list somewhere (don't know off hand), but > you might also consider having tar wrap around pax. >=20 > OpenBSD has already done this, so your work might be already done! > :-) Our pax (which I merged from NetBSD and bits of OpenBSD last year) has a pretty good tar compatibility mode (i.e. when invoked as tar), but it doesn't support most of the gtar longopts. Kris --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8+/KNWry0BWjoQKURAuBWAKCDwXG0n/EfuHJjgQeke2yuvMPYZACgpY0i Mm1UYeoBWpt5+SLMEbHgCL0= =zTl4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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