Tim Kientzle <[email protected]> writes:
> Kent Boortz wrote:
>> ...  the state of testing USTAR compatibility
>> between TAR implementations is a bit sad.
>
> The test suite for bsdtar is designed to be
> run against different implementations.  It
> has quite a bit of bsdtar-specific knowledge
> at the moment, but it shouldn't be much work
> to modify it to be more agnostic.
>
> Which version of CMake were you testing?
> CMake recently switched their TAR implementation
> to use libarchive (the same library used by
> bsdtar); I'd be very interested in you found
> problems in the libarchive-based implementation.

cmake version 2.6-patch 3

Beside the issue with the format produced, I also think "cmake -E tar"
should return an error code other than zero when it is failing, makes
safe scripting a lot easier,

kent

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