From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 06:49:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51C2516A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 06:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cmsrelay02.mx.net (cmsrelay02.mx.net [165.212.11.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 602FF43D55 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 06:49:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from cmsapps02.cms.usa.net (165.212.11.138) by cmsoutbound.mx.net with SMTP; 8 Apr 2004 13:49:19 -0000 Received: from optimator.noacks.org [65.69.0.65] by cmsapps02.cms.usa.net (ASMTP/noackjr@usa.net) via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.13N) with ESMTP id 932iDHNxR0165M38; Thu, 08 Apr 2004 13:49:17 GMT X-USANET-Auth: 65.69.0.65 AUTH noackjr@usa.net optimator.noacks.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C4D6163; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:49:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25445-04; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:49:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from alumni.rice.edu (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 102A6610C; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:49:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <40755856.4020603@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:49:10 -0500 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (Windows/20040312) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Swiger References: <200404052132.i35LWIgJ009519@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040406082945.GD397@ip.net.ua> <4072F398.5040709@kientzle.com> <6CD0CF04-87FB-11D8-B6C6-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <6CD0CF04-87FB-11D8-B6C6-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at noacks.org 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 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 13:49:21 -0000 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