Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 09:36:18
Message-Id: 1EADF69D-5DF8-49E0-9E17-3576BD964DB0@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball by Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
1 On 1 May 2009, at 10:26, Joerg Schilling wrote:
2 > ...
3 > Does gnu tar really did copy star behavior and now allows to use -C
4 > in extract
5 > mode?
6
7 Surely gtar should not emulate star's behaviour? Surely it is only
8 correct to emulate the behaviour of some original Unix tar (without
9 prefix, s- or g- or otherwise), or follow the specifications of some
10 standards document?
11
12 Stroller.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)