Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:23:35 +0000 (UTC) From: seti@mips.inka.de (SETI@home) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Jordan Hubbard on Darwin Message-ID: <8veej7$23uv$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001118142924.00cb6850@localhost> <20001121025846.D54653@hand.dotat.at>
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Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote: > >>Let's hear it for GNU tar, gzip, cpio and pax being standard components! > Isn't pax a BSD program? Yes. And in fact, 4.4BSD pax also served as tar and cpio. They're all links to the same program that modifies its command line syntax depending on how it's called. FreeBSD and NetBSD have elected to go with GNU tar and cpio. I suspect that this decision predates the release of 4.4BSD Light and the availability of 4.4BSD pax. OpenBSD follows the 4.4BSD lead, and has incorporate some fixes/improvements into pax. pax as tar doesn't support all of GNU tar's bloa^Wfeatures, though, nor GNU tar's archive format extensions. Install the sysutils/gtar port, read the "Controlling the Archive Format" section of the info file, and start crying about the mess GNU tar is. Oh, and to complete this sorry topic, our tar has diverged significantly from the GNU release over time, so that a merge/update is problematical. Unfortunately, GNU tar has the singular feature (among tars) of supporting incrementals. So if you're caught in a situation where you can't use dump, because you don't want to backup the complete filesystem, nor star, because you need incrementals, gtar is your only choice. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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