Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 10 Aug 2001 21:00:18 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        David Hill <david@wmol.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GNU tar update 
Message-ID:  <200108110300.f7B30I140540@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Aug 2001 16:20:11 EDT." <20010810162011.5756b8c7.david@wmol.com> 
References:  <20010810162011.5756b8c7.david@wmol.com>  

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <20010810162011.5756b8c7.david@wmol.com> David Hill writes:
: Is it possible that -CURRENT get the newest version of tar (1.13). The version -CURRENT is using now is 1.11.2, which is from 1993.
: 
: I am sure it runs better and has also has been updated to reflect the changes to the Unices over the years.
: 	
: 1.13: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar
: 1.13.19 (alpha): ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar

Many of the patches that are in 1.13 are actaully in FreeBSD's tar.

Warner

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200108110300.f7B30I140540>