From owner-freebsd-current  Mon Jun  3 16:17:56 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id EEEEF37B406; Mon,  3 Jun 2002 16:17:48 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from mike@localhost)
	by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g53NFsB88416;
	Mon, 3 Jun 2002 19:15:54 -0400 (EDT)
	(envelope-from mike)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 19:15:54 -0400
From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>,
	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: <20020603191554.F16166@espresso.q9media.com>
References: <3CFBCA0A.32542302@FreeBSD.org> <20020603151118.X80740-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> <20020603154949.A32931@xor.obsecurity.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20020603154949.A32931@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:49:49PM -0700
Organization: The FreeBSD Project
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-current.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-current>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-current>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
> 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.

Then it's a win/win situation. :)

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message