Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Another problem right now is the translator vs. tarring up /dev stuff. > > What are you going to do about this? With Marco's patch floating > > around, wouldn't it make sense to talk to the Debian tar maintainer > > (Bdale) while he's around? Or are we going to take a different road? > > Different path. It turns out that the only reason they don't use > MAKEDEV is because it was slow. We don't have that issue so will just > use MAKEDEV. I lost track of the thread for Marco's tar patch. I don't > remember if we ever decided it was an attribute or a file type.
(FYI:) It = passive translator I was trying to explain the star maintainer that passive translators are a filetype and not an attribute of a file. But he isn't convinced of this yet... What matter more to me is having this patch (or a reworked version) in GNU tar. This cannot be done in a POSIX compatible way without doing a _LOT_ of GNU tar work. Jeff, what would be the best way to get this in GNU tar? (Or at least to get some comments about this?). Thanks, Marco
