From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 10 20: 0:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E477C37B403 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 20:00:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7B30Il16066; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 21:00:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7B30I140540; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 21:00:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200108110300.f7B30I140540@harmony.village.org> To: David Hill Subject: Re: GNU tar update Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Aug 2001 16:20:11 EDT." <20010810162011.5756b8c7.david@wmol.com> References: <20010810162011.5756b8c7.david@wmol.com> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 21:00:18 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010810162011.5756b8c7.david@wmol.com> David Hill writes: : Is it possible that -CURRENT get the newest version of tar (1.13). The version -CURRENT is using now is 1.11.2, which is from 1993. : : I am sure it runs better and has also has been updated to reflect the changes to the Unices over the years. : : 1.13: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar : 1.13.19 (alpha): ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar Many of the patches that are in 1.13 are actaully in FreeBSD's tar. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message