Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:30:25 +0000 From: "Walter C. Pelissero" <walter@pelissero.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <15363.38257.236253.85237@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> In-Reply-To: <20011126024359.C41312@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <15355.47042.573852.420151@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> <20011126024359.C41312@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien writes: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:18:42PM +0000, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: > > How about adding the nodump flag processing in tar? > > This would be a *bad* idea. It would diverge our tar even more > than it already is -- which is so bad it isn't trival to update to > the latest version (ours is many years behind). Does it mean we can't modify the BSD tar because it's already too different from the GNU tar, but at the same time we don't upgrade to the new GNU tar because it might require too much work adapting the old mods to the new code? Am I wrong or this means the BSD tar code is frozen? Do you have a list of discrepancies (not a diff) between the current BSD tar and the version of GNU tar it's based on? We might find out the new GNU tar doesn't need as much hacking as the old one needs. -- walter pelissero http://www.pelissero.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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