#10549: About the pax utility
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Reporter: pierre.labastie | Owner: blfs-book
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: 8.3
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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pax is a package archiver required by the LSB. Presently, we use an old
version from the heirloom library. There is a more recent (and seemingly
maintained) one at [http://www.mirbsd.org/pax.htm].
But looking at the documentation, tar can produce pax (posix 2001)
compatible format. So maybe pax could be a shell script calling GNU tar
with the appropriate options...
Note: the
[http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pax.html pax
format] and its relationship with ustar and cpio formats.
Also, look at bsdtar instead of GNU tar...
This ticket is for reporting findings about those.
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