Joerg Schilling wrote:
Hi,
Last night, I did convert star from a GPL tool into a CDDL tool. This now makes star compliant with the BSD philosophy.
Is there a chance to have star integrated into FreeBSD?
Not to put down the work you have done, but we've just switched to Tim's BSDtar
so it seems unlikely that we would swiitch again right now.
We have unfortunatly an embarrasment of riches when it comes to tar.
Too may good implementatiosn to choose from.. One would be good,
2 is going to make sure someone misses out. :-/
One good thing with Tim's implementation is the library. It allows us to embed tar/cpio/pax capabilities directly into applications such as pkg_add.
o Compared to star-1.4, star-1.5 gives a lot of new features, e.g.:
- a true incremental backup/restore mode that uses the same basic philosophy as ufsdump/ufsrestore does but with a portable archive format.
- Support for more than the star command line syntax. Star now can be combined as "star_fat" and then uses a command line interface that depends on av[0]:
star the generic star command line interface
tar Compatible to Sun tar which is a true enhancement to the bsd tar program
gtar Compatible to GNU tar
cpio scpio Compatible to cpio
pax compatible to pax
The nice side effect is that you may have a program that behaves 98% like gnu tar but is not based on the GPL.
If you have questions, please ask...
Jörg
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