Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:49:10 -0500 From: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tar Makefile bsdtar.1 bsdtar.c bsdtar.h bsdtar_platform.h matching.c read.c util.c write.c Message-ID: <40755856.4020603@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <6CD0CF04-87FB-11D8-B6C6-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <200404052132.i35LWIgJ009519@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040406082945.GD397@ip.net.ua> <4072F398.5040709@kientzle.com> <6CD0CF04-87FB-11D8-B6C6-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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On 4/6/2004 1:51 PM, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Apr 6, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote: >> There are still a few bugs to iron out and a couple of features that >> are a bit incomplete, but it's getting better quickly. My hope >> is that a few adventurous souls will start using it and giving >> me feedback so that I can grow it into the system tar >> that FreeBSD deserves. > > Most excellent, Tim. Any chance of bsdtar being made available for > -STABLE systems, or as a port? > > [ I keep one 5.x system around for testing the ports I maintain, so I > still could do some testing if not, but I'd be able to use it in many > more places if it was MFC'ed or made available via ports.... ] There is archivers/libarchive already. I imagine once bsdtar gets into a more final state there will be a port of it as well. This is just idle speculation, though. Jon
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