Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 02:10:28 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> 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: <20020604001028.GA54075@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020603154949.A32931@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3CFBCA0A.32542302@FreeBSD.org> <20020603151118.X80740-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> <20020603154949.A32931@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:49:49PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0700, Paul Herman wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > > > However, before proceeding I would like to get an advice with regard > > > to the most appropriate procedure for doing the upgrade. > > > > This came up in another list somewhere (don't know off hand), but > > you might also consider having tar wrap around pax. > > > > 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. last week, I've began to comlete your work done last year by resyncing FreeBSD pax w/ the NetBSD/OpenBSD ones. would be done by the end of this week... Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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