bin/5284: pkg_create uses an unstandard tar

Tim Kientzle kientzle at freebsd.org
Sun Jul 25 11:30:29 PDT 2004


The following reply was made to PR bin/5284; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, giffunip at asme.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/5284: pkg_create uses an unstandard tar
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:25:24 -0700

 Reported in 1997, finally being fixed in 2004
 with the introduction of bsdtar as a replacement
 for gtar. ;-)
 
 FWIW, gtar 1.14 now supports --format=posix,
 which would also address this issue.
 
 Tim Kientzle
 


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