From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 17 3:17:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.206.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FCD814F77 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA78093; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 20:14:22 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 20:14:22 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@localhost To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Alec Wolman , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnu tar upgrade? In-Reply-To: <19990816141600.A67747@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Upgrading tar is something I've been wanting to do for over a > year. Anything to speed me along would be helpful. > Well, like the README file in src/gnu/usr.bin/tar says: "This GNU tar 1.11.2. Please send bug reports, etc., to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. This is a beta-test release. Please ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ try it out. There is no manual; the release of version 1.12 will contain a manual." [the file is dated Jun 18, 1993!] Doesn't give one much confidence in the quality of the software, especially if you don't know its been heavily modified... Also, our tar has never been compatible with Amanda-2.41p1 (one must install gnu-tar 1.12 + patches). -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message