Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:33:19 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: gtar update: opinions sought Message-ID: <c68vkv$1suq$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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obrien@ has pointed out to me that new releases of GNU tar have become available (1.13.94 so far), so I intend to revive the archivers/gtar port. Currently, the gtar port introduces a number of gratuitous differences to gtar as distributed. These were originally modifications to our in-tree tar and sobomox@ synched them into the port (without consulting the maintainer). These changes range from the arguably useful --fast-read option and differences in permission handling for root to cosmetics such as a different, locale-dependent date format in archive listings. Personally, I would like to drop these differences with the update and make our gtar port by and large follow the distribution defaults again. Introducing local behavior changes (other than bug fixes, of course) into a cross-platform tool like gtar is confusing to users, if not outright dangerous. Since other people might not share this view, I'd like to ask for opinions. Note that our system tar will likely switch to bsdtar sooner or later, so I don't think the gtar port is going to serve as a prototype for a system tar upgrade. It will just be a plain port of an external tool. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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