From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 27 9: 9:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E0E37B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:09:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fARH91m68304; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:09:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:09:01 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Walter C. Pelissero" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <20011127090901.A68203@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <15355.47042.573852.420151@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> <20011126024359.C41312@dragon.nuxi.com> <15363.38257.236253.85237@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15363.38257.236253.85237@hyde.lpds.sublink.org>; from walter@pelissero.org on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:30:25PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:30:25PM +0000, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: > Does it mean we can't modify the BSD tar because it's already too > different from the GNU tar, but at the same time we don't upgrade to > the new GNU tar because it might require too much work adapting the > old mods to the new code? Yes. > Am I wrong or this means the BSD tar code is frozen? Sort of. Not a good position to be in. I have seriously considered importing the latest GNU tar into -CURRENT and applying only some of the FreeBSD changes to see just why we cannot live with a more stock GNU tar. > Do you have a list of discrepancies (not a diff) between the current > BSD tar and the version of GNU tar it's based on? No, I read diffs. :-) -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message