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Subject: HEADS UP: bsdtar becoming default in -CURRENT
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In the next couple of days, I'll be switching
bsdtar to be the default system tar for
FreeBSD-CURRENT.

After this change, /usr/bin/tar will be
a symlink pointing to /usr/bin/bsdtar.

People who specifically require gtar can access
it as /usr/bin/gtar, where it will
remain for a while longer.  (Probably
until 6.0, after which time gtar will still
be available indefinitely from ports.)

Note:  It is still undecided whether bsdtar
will be the default system tar for 5.3.
That will be decided by our hardworking
release engineers in the next couple of
months.

Thanks for your patience,

Tim Kientzle
kientzle@freebsd.org