From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 20:51:42 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 6400916A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:51:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 466F243D2F for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:51:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C861B7A439; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:51:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <420D1ADC.2010007@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:51:40 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Schilling References: <420BB11A.nail73W1IA0G1@burner> In-Reply-To: <420BB11A.nail73W1IA0G1@burner> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freesd.org Subject: Re: 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: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:51:42 -0000 Joerg Schilling wrote: >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? > Not to put down the work you have done, but we've just switched to Tim's BSDtar so it seems unlikely that we would swiitch again right now. We have unfortunatly an embarrasment of riches when it comes to tar. Too may good implementatiosn to choose from.. One would be good, 2 is going to make sure someone misses out. :-/ One good thing with Tim's implementation is the library. It allows us to embed tar/cpio/pax capabilities directly into applications such as pkg_add. >o >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 > > >