From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 19:10:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D155416A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:10:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de (mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C31E43D2D for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:10:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de) Received: from burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de (burner [193.175.133.116]) j1AJA6A28571; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:10:06 +0100 (MET) Received: (from jes@localhost)j1AJ8A0c009214; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:08:10 +0100 (CET) From: Joerg Schilling Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:08:10 +0100 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freesd.org Message-ID: <420BB11A.nail73W1IA0G1@burner> User-Agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:28:51 +0000 Subject: Star & FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:10:13 -0000 Hi, Last night, I did convert star from a GPL tool into a CDDL tool. This now makes star compliant with the BSD philosophy. Is there a chance to have star integrated into FreeBSD? Compared to star-1.4, star-1.5 gives a lot of new features, e.g.: - a true incremental backup/restore mode that uses the same basic philosophy as ufsdump/ufsrestore does but with a portable archive format. - Support for more than the star command line syntax. Star now can be combined as "star_fat" and then uses a command line interface that depends on av[0]: star the generic star command line interface tar Compatible to Sun tar which is a true enhancement to the bsd tar program gtar Compatible to GNU tar cpio scpio Compatible to cpio pax compatible to pax The nice side effect is that you may have a program that behaves 98% like gnu tar but is not based on the GPL. If you have questions, please ask... Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily