On 12/10/21 16:43, Mike Frysinger wrote:
POSIX formally standardized this over 20 years ago.
Well, to be fair POSIX standardized both pax and ustar format, and they're both still part of the POSIX standard. Switching to a standard format wouldn't necessarily mean that we'd switch to pax, and there might be reasons to switch to ustar (or to a ustar subset) if we're going to switch at all.
* what projects/versions exactly are impacted ? * what systems (i.e. OS/distros) exactly are impacted ?
I think Michał was attempting to cite this: https://mgorny.pl/articles/portability-of-tar-features.html
