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On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:05:43PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> Spider wrote: [Tue Aug 05 2003, 06:43:56AM EDT] |
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> > Does this mean we can start implementing "ln -s star tar" in our |
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> > systems? (star is another tar implementation thats more posix |
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> > compliant than GNU tar is. ) |
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> This already seems to be the case on my system. |
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> $ epm -qf /usr/bin/tar |
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> star-1.5_alpha14 |
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GNU tar is installed in /bin/tar |
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Star installs in /usr/bin/tar |
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While Star may be more posix compliant, be very careful with it, as |
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things that depend on GNU tar don't like it (eg amanda). |
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