Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 13:40:03 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU is not tar Message-ID: <3378D1A3.321A@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970512180204.6097B-100000@misery.sdf.com> <3377F32D.10DB@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <19970513140357.63713@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <33781510.52B9@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <19970513152753.59938@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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David Dawes wrote: > > >The real problem, anyway, is that pax should be used instead of "tar" > >when building packages or preparing the distribution, to be more > >standard comformant. I think the ports tree uses pax anyway. > > I've seen problems with pax -- both the original version which I > tried some years ago, and the version that comes with Digital Unix > (and to which tar and cpio are linked). I've been avoiding it ever > since, and haven't tried the version included with FreeBSD. > > David FWIW, there is a commercial tar utility in http://www.cactus.com called "Lone-Tar". Too western for me :-).
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