On 08-05 11:15, Bdale Garbee wrote: > tags +292774 wontfix > thanks > > On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:20:42 +0200, Witold Baryluk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > i would also like to have this possiblity, > > to use bsdtar as tar provider. Currently > > it is impossible to use it by bsdtar, becuase > > tar should in first place provide alternative to tar. > > It's much more complicated than you suggest. > > First, because tar is 'essential' and 'required' in our packaging > system, there are no dependency assertions present in other packages > that need a working tar. This makes it hard to know what requirements > exist, and to understand whether some other version of tar can really > substitute for GNU tar. Since GNU tar has been "tar" for the entire > history of Debian, it seems entirely possible and likely that some > packages depend on features / command line options / etc of this version > of tar that are not supported by alternatives like bsdtar. > > Second, dpkg has a known strong dependency on tar. That means that if > anything in the system 'breaks' tar, it will be very hard for an average > user to fix the problem... because they won't be able to install or > upgrade packages. To me, this means that adding additional dependencies > or package management complexity to tar is something we must consider > *very* carefully. > > In summary, adding /etc/alternatives support to tar is the least of my > concerns about making this change. A thorough analysis of the rest of > the issues must be undertaken before we can begin to consider this > request. Marking this bug 'wontfix' for now, since I currently have no > motivation to engage in such an analysis. > > Bdale
I understand your point of view. Will just make /usr/bin/tar a symlink on my own risk now, and will check if it will make dpkg or other common package to break. Thanks for looking at this issue. -- Witold Baryluk
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