From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 21 10:32:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39C737B4C5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 10:32:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 13yIDB-0004F2-01; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:32:09 +0100 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eALINZR69608 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:23:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: seti@mips.inka.de (SETI@home) Subject: Re: Jordan Hubbard on Darwin Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:23:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <8veej7$23uv$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001118142924.00cb6850@localhost> <20001121025846.D54653@hand.dotat.at> Originator: seti@mips.inka.de (SETI@home) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tony Finch wrote: > >>Let's hear it for GNU tar, gzip, cpio and pax being standard components! > Isn't pax a BSD program? Yes. And in fact, 4.4BSD pax also served as tar and cpio. They're all links to the same program that modifies its command line syntax depending on how it's called. FreeBSD and NetBSD have elected to go with GNU tar and cpio. I suspect that this decision predates the release of 4.4BSD Light and the availability of 4.4BSD pax. OpenBSD follows the 4.4BSD lead, and has incorporate some fixes/improvements into pax. pax as tar doesn't support all of GNU tar's bloa^Wfeatures, though, nor GNU tar's archive format extensions. Install the sysutils/gtar port, read the "Controlling the Archive Format" section of the info file, and start crying about the mess GNU tar is. Oh, and to complete this sorry topic, our tar has diverged significantly from the GNU release over time, so that a merge/update is problematical. Unfortunately, GNU tar has the singular feature (among tars) of supporting incrementals. So if you're caught in a situation where you can't use dump, because you don't want to backup the complete filesystem, nor star, because you need incrementals, gtar is your only choice. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message