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.
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Regards,
Doug
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