On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 16:59, Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote:
>>
>> Hmmm... What about do not enforce any particular format by default?
>> Especially if consider that on my FreeBSD automake already enforses
>> ustar when tries to enforce v7 ;-)
>>
>> tard
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote:
Hmmm... What about do not enforce any particular format by default?
Especially if consider that on my FreeBSD automake already enforses
ustar when tries to enforce v7 ;-)
tardir=testprog-0.0.0 && /usr/local/bin/bash
/home/user/tmp/testprog/missi
2011/6/23 Bob Friesenhahn :
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Javier Jardón wrote:
>>
>> FYI, GNU tar added pax support in 2004 [1]
>> Anyway, a change to ustar would be enough for us. Should I file a bug for
>> this?
>
> Filing a bug sounds like a good idea. The issue is less likely to be
> forgotten.
>
Hm
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Javier Jardón wrote:
FYI, GNU tar added pax support in 2004 [1]
Anyway, a change to ustar would be enough for us. Should I file a bug for this?
Filing a bug sounds like a good idea. The issue is less likely to be
forgotten.
Bob
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On 22 June 2011 02:28, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>
>> The problem, of course, being that pax probably isn't available, which
>> makes it hard for a default choice.
>
> As per WikiPedia:
>
> "Despite being standardized in 2001 by IEEE, as of 2010, pax enjoys
Bob Friesenhahn writes:
> pax is required to be present in all conformant systems by Linux
> Standard Base since version 3.0 (released on July 6, 2005),[2] but so
> far few Linux distributions ship and install it by default. However,
> most distributions include pax as a separately installable pa
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Russ Allbery wrote:
The problem, of course, being that pax probably isn't available, which
makes it hard for a default choice.
As per WikiPedia:
"Despite being standardized in 2001 by IEEE, as of 2010, pax enjoys
relatively little popularity and penetration rate.
pax i
Bob Friesenhahn writes:
> Does automake depend on 'tar' being GNU tar? If it will use any old
> tar, then one would assume that it uses the default output format since
> otherwise it might not know how to request some other format variant.
> If it it used 'pax' then the output format can be cert
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Javier Jardón wrote:
I'd like to know if there is a plan to switch to tar-pax or tar-ustar
(seems that pax support is broken in openbsd) as a default tar format.
Currently we have some problem in GNOME project with some modules
because the limitations of the current tar form
