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
Hello,
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 format
I'd like to know if would be possi
Hello,
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 format
I'd like to know if would be possi
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