Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:25:50 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de> Cc: nate@yogotech.com, brandt@fokus.gmd.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jes@fokus.gmd.de, tofergus@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag (fwd) Message-ID: <15366.39374.250439.333148@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200111292020.fATKKdP25658@burner.fokus.gmd.de> References: <200111292020.fATKKdP25658@burner.fokus.gmd.de>
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> >> Of course, if you only know GNUtar Star's standard option handling > >> _may_ look strange. But then why did FreBSD switch to GNUtar instead > >> of keeping a real tar? > > >Because there didn't exist a real tar at the time that FreeBSD was > >created. > > Well this is from BSD-4.3: [ SNIP ] > ... And it has no Copyright AT&T inside. > That may be, but at the time FreeBSD was created (so many years ago), there was no 'real' tar to choose from. BSD-4.3 tar was not available publically. I'm not sure it's available even now publically. (Is it part of 4.4-Lite/Lite2?) We tried a number of different versions of tar to distribute initially (including the one from Minix, who Andrew Tanenbaum graciously gave us permission to use), but we decided that GNU-tar was the best of the available versions. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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