Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 00:15:28 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU is not tar Message-ID: <33781510.52B9@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970512180204.6097B-100000@misery.sdf.com> <3377F32D.10DB@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <19970513140357.63713@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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David Dawes wrote: > > So, it is behaving as documented, and the FreeBSD man page isn't accurate: > You are right. I never read the complete tar manpage, but only the example (which was wrong). The "-" is optional as Chuck Robey noted. The real problem, anyway, is that pax should be used instead of "tar" when building packages or preparing the distribution, to be more standard comformant. I think the ports tree uses pax anyway. Pedro. > > David
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