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new 4f274961 HDDS-12672. Clarify BSD/GNU tar in release manager guide
(#138)
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commit 4f27496113ebd4ad50dcae3f30a105b025949f98
Author: Doroszlai, Attila <6454655+adorosz...@users.noreply.github.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Mar 24 22:30:15 2025 +0100
HDDS-12672. Clarify BSD/GNU tar in release manager guide (#138)
---
docs/08-developer-guide/04-project/02-release-guide.md | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/08-developer-guide/04-project/02-release-guide.md
b/docs/08-developer-guide/04-project/02-release-guide.md
index ee130ead..324ac59e 100644
--- a/docs/08-developer-guide/04-project/02-release-guide.md
+++ b/docs/08-developer-guide/04-project/02-release-guide.md
@@ -16,7 +16,13 @@ In addition to the usual development tools required to work
on Ozone, the follow
- [GnuPG](https://www.gnupg.org/) to manage your GPG keys.
- [Protolock](https://github.com/nilslice/protolock) to manage protocol buffer
compatibility.
-Make sure you are using GNU-tar instead of BSD-tar.
+Make sure to use [GNU tar](https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/). On Mac,
built-in tar includes additional metadata in the archive, which appears as
extra files when extracted on other platforms. GNU tar can be installed e.g.
via Homebrew:
+
+```bash title="Install GNU tar on Mac"
+brew install gnu-tar
+# to use it as "tar", not "gtar", add the "gnubin" directory to your PATH
+export PATH="$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/gnu-tar/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
+```
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