Change tar to GNU

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Thu Feb 17 19:29:35 GMT 2005


On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:16:07PM +0200, Kaspars wrote:
>  I have backup script build with tar and -newer options.
> on FreeBSD 4.x it worked and i see:
> $tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
> 
> on FreeBSD 5.3 not working and I found:
> $tar --version
> bsdtar 1.01.011, libarchive 1.01.013
> Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Tim Kientzle
> 
> So I understand that you change own tar to make different licence.
> 
> I just thinking what is proper way to update tar to GNU tar to make 
> working again my script?

pkg_add -r gtar
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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