Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:09:01 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Walter C. Pelissero" <walter@pelissero.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <20011127090901.A68203@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <15363.38257.236253.85237@hyde.lpds.sublink.org>; from walter@pelissero.org on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:30:25PM %2B0000 References: <15355.47042.573852.420151@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> <20011126024359.C41312@dragon.nuxi.com> <15363.38257.236253.85237@hyde.lpds.sublink.org>
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:30:25PM +0000, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: > Does it mean we can't modify the BSD tar because it's already too > different from the GNU tar, but at the same time we don't upgrade to > the new GNU tar because it might require too much work adapting the > old mods to the new code? Yes. > Am I wrong or this means the BSD tar code is frozen? Sort of. Not a good position to be in. I have seriously considered importing the latest GNU tar into -CURRENT and applying only some of the FreeBSD changes to see just why we cannot live with a more stock GNU tar. > Do you have a list of discrepancies (not a diff) between the current > BSD tar and the version of GNU tar it's based on? No, I read diffs. :-) -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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