NEW TAR

[Bill Vermillion]

 In freebsd-current Digest, Vol 70, Issue 13

> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:59:20 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Barry Bouwsma
> 	<freebsd-misuser at remove-NOSPAM-to-reply.NOSPAM.dyndns.dk>
> Subject: Re: NEW TAR
> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org>
> Cc: stable at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <200407291159.i6TBxKj01347 at Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK>

> [introduced to freebsd-stable@ , don't bother replying directly to me]

> On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:37:28 -0700, Tim Kientzle proclaimed:
> 
> > By default, /usr/bin/tar is now a symlink pointing
> > to /usr/bin/bsdtar.
>   [in -current]
> 
> [...]
> 
> >   * Portability:  gtar is portable to many different Unix and non-Unix
> >     systems.  bsdtar supports standard file formats that are widely
> >     supported by other implementations.  There are efforts to port
> >     bsdtar to other platforms.

> Would it be possible to include patches similar to (or based
> upon) the following diffs, in order to get `bsdtar' to compile
> cleanly under my (older) 4.x -- based on checking out HEAD of
> libarchive and bsdtar from the CVS repository?  (I haven't looked
> for source otherwise, sorry; this is to make an future MFC more
> compatible with older 4.x)

The bsdtar in /usr/ports on my 4.10 compiles with nothing
more than typing 'make'.

Are your ports up to date, or is there something I'm missing here?

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