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From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] star
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:11:39
Message-Id: 200709252255.49402.grimlog@gmx.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] star by Florian Philipp
1 Hi,
2
3 Am Samstag, 22. September 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp:
4 > Hi!
5 > I'd like to hear some comments on app-arch/star.
6
7 it's a great tool imo.
8
9 > I've looked at its (IMHO really great) man page and didn't see anything
10 > obviously concerning. Most frequently used tar options (-c -x -p -z -j)
11 > seem to be in place.
12 > What I'd like to know: Is it fully backward compatible to tar?
13
14 What version of "tar"? It's not 100% compatible to GNU tar but posix compliant
15 afaik.
16
17 > Could I
18 > safely unmerge tar and make a symlink from tar to star?
19
20 Well I did the symlink, but have a copy of gnu tar in some other dir. Until
21 now, I did not need the fallback.
22
23 > Thanks in advance!
24 > Florian Philipp
25
26 Hth,
27 Michael
28
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