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Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake


From: Andrew W. Nosenko
Subject: Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:14:12 +0300

2011/6/23 Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Javier Jardón wrote:
>>
>> FYI, GNU tar added pax support in 2004 [1]
>> Anyway, a change to ustar would be enough for us. Should I file a bug for
>> this?
>
> Filing a bug sounds like a good idea.  The issue is less likely to be
> forgotten.
>

Hmmm...  What about do not enforce any particular format by default?
Especially if consider that on my FreeBSD automake already enforses
ustar when tries to enforce v7 ;-)

    tardir=testprog-0.0.0 && /usr/local/bin/bash
/home/user/tmp/testprog/missing --run tar chof - "$tardir" | bzip2 -9
-c >testprog-0.0.0.tar.bz2

The 'o' option in the 'tar chof -' above means '-‐format ustar' for
bsdtar instead of '--format v7' for GNU tar :-)

-- 
Andrew W. Nosenko <address@hidden>



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