Default tar for 1.3 and later

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue May 3 01:41:07 PDT 2005


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





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