Re: Default tar for 1.3 and later

[Raphael Marmier <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:35:58PM +0200, Raphael Marmier wrote:

[...]

> > On the other hand, of course, if those path problems have been fixed 
> > (for tar archives), its another matter entirely.
>
>
> The default is safe.
End of argument then, at least for me.

> > But tar being used for stuff like backups, I consider the move with 
> > anxiety. The default should point to a tool that don't have unexpected 
> > behaviour, I insist.
>
>
> Well, I consider GNU tar kind of unexpected too :) BTW, we are the only
> BSD still using GNU tar (FreeBSD moved to BSD tar, Net and Open are using
> the pax frontend).

pssst, MacOSX still defaults to gnu tar, at least 10.3 (I have yet to 
install 10.4)
		.... please don't bash me! ouch! aouh!

Raphael