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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:13:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pkg_add broken by POLA breakage in tar 
Message-ID:  <200208011913.g71JDAAA053194@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200208011901.PAA26093@marlborough.cnchost.com>
References:  <3D497135.92A17316@FreeBSD.org> <200208011901.PAA26093@marlborough.cnchost.com>

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<<On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 12:01:08 -0700, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> said:

> If it were upto me I'd choose what POSIX says.

POSIX says to use pax(1).  There is no `tar' in POSIX.  (There is,
unfortunately, a cpio(1) in POSIX.)

-GAWollman


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