From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Apr 11 1:34:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCFB037B987 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 01:34:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09620 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:33:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id KAA07501 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:33:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE66137B8A5 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 01:33:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA91579; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:33:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Terry Lambert , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh References: <200004062336.QAA38972@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <200004110000.RAA29030@usr09.primenet.com> <200004110049.SAA26344@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Apr 2000 10:33:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of "Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:49:49 -0600 (MDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams writes: > > I still regret the replacement of "tar" with "gnu tar" > Umm, Terry. There was never any replacement that went on, since there > was no 'tar' sources that came with Net1/Net2 or 4.4Lite1/2. Gnu-tar > was used because the BSD replacement (pax) was so buggy to be almost > unusable, and no-one was interested in fixing it. Speaking of buggy, FreeBSD's version of GNU tar is not a shining example of perfection either. The named vs. numeric ownership issue should be controlled by a command-line option, not by a compile-time define; and the tarballs it produces with --listed-incremental can't be properly extracted by an unmodified GNU tar 1.13. This really bites people using Amanda. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message