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| From: | Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball | ||
| Date: | Fri, 01 May 2009 10:28:27 | ||
| Message-Id: | 49facec7.94uqI5rxew5BpBBD%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball by Stroller |
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| 1 | Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > On 1 May 2009, at 10:26, Joerg Schilling wrote: |
| 4 | > > ... |
| 5 | > > Does gnu tar really did copy star behavior and now allows to use -C |
| 6 | > > in extract |
| 7 | > > mode? |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | > Surely gtar should not emulate star's behaviour? Surely it is only |
| 10 | > correct to emulate the behaviour of some original Unix tar (without |
| 11 | > prefix, s- or g- or otherwise), or follow the specifications of some |
| 12 | > standards document? |
| 13 | |
| 14 | If gnu tsr would follow the specifications from the Single UNIX specification |
| 15 | |
| 16 | http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/tar.html |
| 17 | |
| 18 | there would be less problems ;-) |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Jörg |
| 21 | |
| 22 | -- |
| 23 | EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
| 24 | js@××××××××××××.de (uni) |
| 25 | joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
| 26 | URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily |