Heads up: gtar gone from base system

Doug Poland doug at polands.org
Fri Mar 25 05:05:16 PST 2005


On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:53:49PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> FreeBSD 6-CURRENT no longer includes "gtar."
> In particular, the WITH_GTAR option is gone
> and "tar" will always invoke the "bsdtar"
> program.
> 
>   * Tell the tar maintainer (me!) about it and
>     see if it can get added.  (I've recently
>     added -newer-xxx, --strip-components, and
>     --totals in response to user requests.)
> 
There are some examples in the gtar man page that would be nice to have
in bsdtar.  

-- 
Regards,
Doug


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