Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This would mean the default would have to change when you enable that > > option[1], is there a reason to not allow it with the gnu format? Also > > The "GNU tar" archive format is neither POSIX (not even POSIX.1-1988) > nor really compatible to historical tar formats.
This is a well-known fact, stated in GNU tar documentation. It is hardly woth repeating the same thing over and over again. > You cannot add POSIX features to a non-POSIX format. Quite right. > > to be compatible[2] with star we need to at least extract from ustar > > typed archives (star's exustar is treated by GNUtar as ustar ... AIUI). > > This needs to be called a bug in GNU tar. Yes, if it really were treating it as ustar. > > [1] Or have the horribly ugly UI that star has where you need to specify > > --xattrs and --format=posix or it'd fail, which seems to be much worse > > for no real gain. > > I belioeve that that it's rather the GNU tar UI that is horribly ugly. No accounting for tastes. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
