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Date:      Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:04:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>
To:        Martin Blapp <blapp@attic.ch>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>
Subject:   Re: GNU-Tar should be updated
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.980623145622.15658A-100000@james.hwcn.org>
In-Reply-To: <35900407.FC480B48@attic.ch>

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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Martin Blapp wrote:

> > The latest tar is currently being vetted-out in the ports system. ;-)
> 
> What do you mean exactly with "vetted-out" ? I don't know the meaning of
> it, sorry, my english isn't good enough ...

"vetted-out" == "worked the bugs out" == "tested"

However, I didn't mean "vetted-out" literally, anyways...  :)

I will paraphrase some recent messages from FreeBSD-committers:

ache:  I have imported a new GNU tar port into ports/sysutils/gtar
asami:  Shouldn't that have been "src/contrib/tar"? :)
ache:  No way!  It's going to be years before I ever upgrade
       something in src/contrib/ again after that mess with
       bc(1)!!!!

IOW, no one has volunteered to upgrade tar(1) yet.


--
Outnumbered?  Maybe.  Outspoken?  Never!
tIM...HOEk


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