Default tar for 1.3 and later

Hiten Pandya hmp at backplane.com
Tue May 3 04:30:28 PDT 2005


Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:34:29PM +0200, Hummel Tom wrote:

I can't see anything wrong with using BSD tar as /bin/tar and GNU tar as 
/bin/gnu_tar or something.


They are currently installed as /usr/bin/bsdtar and /usr/bin/gtar, with
/usr/bin/tar being a link to one of them. The question is which one :)
Joerg
	We can always do something similar to CCVER based selection, and
	default to GNU tar.
			-Hiten





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