Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:12:24 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> Cc: "Walter C. Pelissero" <walter@pelissero.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <20011127091224.B68203@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20011127144343.W421-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>; from brandt@fokus.gmd.de on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:45:38PM %2B0100 References: <15363.38257.236253.85237@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> <20011127144343.W421-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:45:38PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > Perhaps it makes sense to switch to star instead? The last version is > Posix conform, supports extended headers and ACLs. According to the star > developer (Joerg Schilling) GNU tar is severly broken. Star is GLP'ed software. Thus bringing it in under a license justification won't work. So it would be up to someone to analysis Joerg Schilling statements and make a proposal on a FreeBSD mailing list to see if we could reach consensus on the change. A negative point would be that we'd be the only one using Star as our native tar. By sticking with GNU Tar we are in larger company. The ACL and extended header support may be a feature we really want in -current to go along with Robert Watson's TrustedBSD merges. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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