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Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake |
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Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:55:30 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:
> pax is required to be present in all conformant systems by Linux
> Standard Base since version 3.0 (released on July 6, 2005),[2] but so
> far few Linux distributions ship and install it by default. However,
> most distributions include pax as a separately installable package."
> I find pax under Solaris, FreeBSD, & Apple's OS X but not (by default on)
> Ubtuntu Linux.
Ah, it might be more widespread than I thought. It seems to be on RHEL 5
as well (although I'm not sure what level of install you need).
It's packaged for Debian, of course, but isn't part of a typical install.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
- tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Javier Jardón, 2011/06/21
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/06/21
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Russ Allbery, 2011/06/21
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/06/21
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake,
Russ Allbery <=
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Javier Jardón, 2011/06/22
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/06/22
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Andrew W. Nosenko, 2011/06/23
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/06/23
- Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake, Andrew W. Nosenko, 2011/06/23