From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 3 17:10:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (racine.noos.net [212.198.2.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F7937B408 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:10:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4647037 invoked by uid 0); 4 Jun 2002 00:10:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.230.194]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.71 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Jun 2002 00:10:33 -0000 Received: from gits.gits.dyndns.org (in2ehxo2f30326rw@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g540ATKq054360; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 02:10:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g540ASM8054359; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 02:10:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 02:10:28 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Paul Herman , Maxim Sobolev , 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> 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> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: ACME X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[< List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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