From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 07:09:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086B137B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B0843FB1 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp1.server.rpi.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6HE9E9t006051; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:09:15 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030717135041.GB6651@kevad.internal> References: <20030717080805.GA98878@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030717135041.GB6651@kevad.internal> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:09:14 -0400 To: kalts@estpak.ee, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:09:20 -0000 At 4:50 PM +0300 7/17/03, Vallo Kallaste wrote: >On Thu, Jul 17, 2003, David O'Brien wrote: > >> - tar, pax (w/{bz,g}zip) can do everything GNU tar can. > >As someone said, people are accustomed to tar, it's in >fingers. I like to use pax for copying directory hierarchies >(pax -rw), but for every other task use tar. Will learn pax >if needed, no problem. 'tar' is programmed into my fingers too, but I must admit that I like the idea of limiting the amount of GNU-licensed bits in /rescue. I guess gzip needs to be there, is there anything else that's gnu-ish? [hopefully this is the last bit of paint that I will add to this potential bikeshed...] -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu