At 15:44 13/06/01 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 13
> 14:55:48 2001
>
> >> As you can see, the files are identical, although tar was not able to list
> >> them.
> >>
> >> Further, I tried your mk and mk2 scripts with tar and star. You are
> right,
> >> star is able to process file names which are not POSIX conformant
> while tar
> >> fails on those files.
> >>
> >> Conclusion (for me): Nothing bad at all. While GNU tar has problems with
> >> very long file names and also fails to list a POSIX correct tar archive,
> >> it's nothing I'd worry about. As long as files are extracted
> correctly, I'm
> >> fine.
>
> >
> >Yes, I have also noticed that star creates files with portability
> >problems. For that reason I avoid using it for backups, which I might
> >have to use on machines without star.
>
>
>GNU tar is _the_ program with portability problems! This is the fact.
>
>The bad result of this fact is that Sun is using more and more *.zip archives
>beacause people are using GNU tar, are unwilling to accept that there
>is a GNu tar compatibility problem and complain about exptraction
>problems....
>
>
> >Regardless of what you use for backup, be it tar or programs designed
> >from scratch for backup like 'dump', for software distribution I want
> >portability over conformance to standards. If the distribution doesn't
> >work it won't be used, regardless of pedantic conformance to standards.
>
>Sou you should decide to avoid GNU tar...
I use cpio to do backup and occasionally use tar ( on sun ) and GNU tar (
on linux ). It appears to me that most unix developers used tar. Wondering
which tar they used? Probably they do not care as long as nobody complain.
Is it true that Sun people are complaining about GNU tar?
Are there any problems using zip to distribute cdrecord? From you mail it
seems that you do not like Sun using zip archives. Actually I think
www.sunfreeware.com (probably sponsored by sun) is providing packages in
sun package form in GNU zip fomat.
Sorry if it is too much off topic.
Paul
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