From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 3 20:37:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au (004.c.010.mel.iprimus.net.au [210.50.202.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACE837B408; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 20:37:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g543aIcx042167; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:36:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from tim@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au) Received: (from tim@localhost) by treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g543aI0T042166; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:36:18 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:36:17 +1000 From: "Tim J. Robbins" To: Paul Herman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system Message-ID: <20020604133617.A42142@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <3CFBCA0A.32542302@FreeBSD.org> <20020603151118.X80740-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 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. I am in favour of doing this. Same with cpio. I'd prefer to see GNU tar and cpio in ports (if they are not already there). If the functionality of a GNU long option is useful, we should find an option letter that isn't used, or use the -W namespace. Another similar move would be to make /usr/bin/compress act as gzip, gunzip, etc. by using zlib - OpenBSD have done this, but it is temporarily disabled. Having two tar's, two cpio's, two awk's, gzip and zlib in the base system is bloat. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message