On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 05:49:56PM +0100, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 07:51:22 -0500 > Cág <c...@snopyta.org> wrote: > > Dear Cág, > > > A quick question: for "POSIX tar archive (GNU)" files tar prints > > tar: unsupported tar-filetype L > > > > Is GNU tar support out of scope? > > there's probably no way to implement those GNU-extensions in a good and > suckless way. The FSF has the bad habit for their > standard-implementations that they tend to add everything including the > kitchen sink which might as well be easily handled by other standard > tools (think of "cat -v" for example). > > Even if a suckless implementation of GNU tar was possible, would you > really want it to be included? I'd rather like to encourage people to > use standard non-proprietary file formats. > > With best regards > > Laslo >
This portability report https://mgorny.pl/articles/portability-of-tar-features.html might help a bit. The tl;dr is that you either use POSIX ustar with its path length and file size limits, or use GNU tar when your input doesn't fit; pax was supposed to be the replacement, but is more or less unused/ignored. Regards
