Default tar for 1.3 and later

Hiten Pandya hmp at backplane.com
Tue May 3 03:28:09 PDT 2005


Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
Hi all,
is there any objection to switch the default tar to BSD tar?
GNU tar will be kept, since some features for tape handling
and updating are missing in BSD tar, but the latter does a
better job for the normal use cases.
Joerg
	Keeping both will only produce a confused user.  If we are to keep
	both of them, some type of information needs to be given about the
	missing features.
				-Hiten
				Hiten Pandya
				hmp at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




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