Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:06:01 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: current@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: HEADS UP: bsdtar becoming default in -CURRENT Message-ID: <40F21C39.2020305@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <40F031D5.9030605@freebsd.org> References: <40EE35BA.4040701@alumni.rice.edu> <40F031D5.9030605@freebsd.org>
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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
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