From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 3 15:49:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-56.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E53637B401; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 15:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 090A666C49; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 15:49:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 15:49:49 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Paul Herman Cc: Maxim Sobolev , 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> References: <3CFBCA0A.32542302@FreeBSD.org> <20020603151118.X80740-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020603151118.X80740-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net>; from pherman@frenchfries.net on Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0700 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 --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