From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 19:31:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F42816A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:31:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.156.12.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD81B43D2D for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:31:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5226F46B4C; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:31:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:29:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Kaspars In-Reply-To: <4214ED77.6000206@os.lv> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change tar to GNU X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:31:19 -0000 On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Kaspars wrote: > I have backup script build with tar and -newer options. > on FreeBSD 4.x it worked and i see: > $tar --version > tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 > > on FreeBSD 5.3 not working and I found: > $tar --version > bsdtar 1.01.011, libarchive 1.01.013 > Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Tim Kientzle > > So I understand that you change own tar to make different licence. > > I just thinking what is proper way to update tar to GNU tar to make > working again my script? You can install the GNU tar as a package; however, it would be quite helpful if you could describe the problem in a little more detail so that the bug, if any, can be fixed. Robert N M Watson