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Date:      Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:49:10 -0500
From:      Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>
To:        Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tar Makefile bsdtar.1 bsdtar.c bsdtar.h bsdtar_platform.h matching.c read.c util.c write.c
Message-ID:  <40755856.4020603@alumni.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6CD0CF04-87FB-11D8-B6C6-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
References:  <200404052132.i35LWIgJ009519@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040406082945.GD397@ip.net.ua> <4072F398.5040709@kientzle.com> <6CD0CF04-87FB-11D8-B6C6-003065ABFD92@mac.com>

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On 4/6/2004 1:51 PM, Charles Swiger wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> There are still a few bugs to iron out and a couple of features that
>> are a bit incomplete, but it's getting better quickly.  My hope
>> is that a few adventurous souls will start using it and giving
>> me feedback so that I can grow it into the system tar
>> that FreeBSD deserves.
> 
> Most excellent, Tim.  Any chance of bsdtar being made available for 
> -STABLE systems, or as a port?
> 
> [ I keep one 5.x system around for testing the ports I maintain, so I 
> still could do some testing if not, but I'd be able to use it in many 
> more places if it was MFC'ed or made available via ports.... ]

There is archivers/libarchive already.  I imagine once bsdtar gets into 
a more final state there will be a port of it as well.  This is just 
idle speculation, though.

Jon



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