Heads up: gtar gone from base system

[Tim Kientzle]

Bakul Shah wrote:
>>>What is the status of this bug?
>>>
>>>    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=76294
>>>
>>>[summary: certain gzipped tar files can't be untarred
>>>correctly with -z flag but work fine if with gzcat|tar xvf -]
> ...  this bug has been around for a while and I
> have to assume the fix is difficult or whoever is fixing does
> not have enough free time.  Both are perfectly understandable
> reasons!:-)

Guilty as charged!  ;-)  I'm working on an update to
our libz, but it's diverged a bit from the original
sources so it is taking me a while to figure out how
best to update it.

Given my limited time, this may not make it into 5.4
but will make 5.5 for sure!  ;=/

Tim