Default tar revisited

Peter Avalos pavalos at theshell.com
Thu Sep 21 09:38:01 PDT 2006


On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:21:04PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Yes, but I can't see any problem reports that are still outstanding.  Can a=
> :nyone
> :else find any?
> :
> :--Peter
> 
>     It sounds like we are a go then.  Did the commit you made on the 17th
>     cover all the updates?  If so then you can change the default linkages
>     in HEAD for bsdtar and gtar to link bsdtar as 'tar' instead of gnu tar.
> 

The version I imported was released on Sep. 5th, 2006, so it should include
everything.  I'll change the symlink to make bsdtar the default, and I'll
replace the "WITH_BSDTAR" option with "WITH_GTAR" and make it dtrt.

>     Lets keep gnu tar in the build for one release cycle, as gtar only,
>     then we can remove it in favor of a pkgsrc-only install.
> 

Sounds good.
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