On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0700, Paul Herman wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > However, before proceeding I would like to get an advice with regard > > to the most appropriate procedure for doing the upgrade. > > This came up in another list somewhere (don't know off hand), but > you might also consider having tar wrap around pax. > > OpenBSD has already done this, so your work might be already done! > :-)
Our pax (which I merged from NetBSD and bits of OpenBSD last year) has a pretty good tar compatibility mode (i.e. when invoked as tar), but it doesn't support most of the gtar longopts. Kris
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