On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Christian Weisgerber wrote: CW>Harti Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CW> CW>> Perhaps it makes sense to switch to star instead? The last version is CW>> Posix conform, supports extended headers and ACLs. According to the star CW>> developer (Joerg Schilling) GNU tar is severly broken. CW> CW>Unfortunately, star has it's own share of problems: CW> CW>- A highly idiosyncratic command syntax that is incompatible with CW> traditional tar syntax. I think this is a killer.
Well, yes. CW>- It doesn't support incremental backups. That isn't a problem in CW> itself, but it's a feature our GNU tar currently has and people CW> probably don't want to lose. CW>- An idiosyncratic build system. I know that. I have a discussion every other day with the guy about how great it is :-) harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
