On Thu, 2021-12-09 at 21:40 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > The posix standard has been released for over 20 years, and tar has > supported it for almost as long (at least since 2004). The docs have > said the default will change in a future version for almost as long, > so lets finally actually switch it. > > * NEWS: Update. > * configure.ac (DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT): Change GNU to POSIX. > * doc/tar.texi: Update gnu & posix format sections mentioning defaults. >
This sounds like a bad idea. The last time I checked (it was in 2018 though [1]), GNU extensions were still more portable than PAX. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
