Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:12:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Esimorp E <eesimorp@yahoo.com> To: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>, Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Overwrite bsd tar Message-ID: <1316797922.21261.YahooMailClassic@web111813.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4E7C9099.3060906@bananmonarki.se>
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Hi Bernt, Thank you for your reply. I had similar concern as well but I really needed= the globus toolkit and wouldn't mind if its the only that works on the sys= tem. --- On Fri, 9/23/11, Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> wrote: From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> Subject: Re: Overwrite bsd tar To: "Damien Fleuriot" <ml@my.gd> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, September 23, 2011, 1:58 PM 2011-09-23 14:07, Damien Fleuriot skrev: > On 9/23/11 2:04 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> 2011-09-23 13:25, Esimorp E skrev: >>> >>> I would be grateful if anyone could help me out on how to overwrite >>> bsd tar with Gnu tar. >> >> Thats not a good idea. If you want to use gnu tar then gtar is the >> command for you. Or copy tar to tar.bsd and make a symlink tar>=A0 gtar. > > > Even worse, what's going to happen when some BSD specific software tries > to pass BSD specific options to gnutar ? A lot of unexpected things, that's the reason I wrote it wasn't a good idea= . _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= "
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