Harti Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps it makes sense to switch to star instead? The last version is > Posix conform, supports extended headers and ACLs. According to the star > developer (Joerg Schilling) GNU tar is severly broken.
Unfortunately, star has it's own share of problems: - A highly idiosyncratic command syntax that is incompatible with traditional tar syntax. I think this is a killer. - It doesn't support incremental backups. That isn't a problem in itself, but it's a feature our GNU tar currently has and people probably don't want to lose. - An idiosyncratic build system. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
