From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 29 12:26: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EAF37B41B for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:25:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17830; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:25:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fATKPpc09693; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:25:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15366.39374.250439.333148@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:25:50 -0700 To: Joerg Schilling 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) In-Reply-To: <200111292020.fATKKdP25658@burner.fokus.gmd.de> References: <200111292020.fATKKdP25658@burner.fokus.gmd.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> 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