On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:30:25PM +0000, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: > Does it mean we can't modify the BSD tar because it's already too > different from the GNU tar, but at the same time we don't upgrade to > the new GNU tar because it might require too much work adapting the > old mods to the new code?
Yes. > Am I wrong or this means the BSD tar code is frozen? Sort of. Not a good position to be in. I have seriously considered importing the latest GNU tar into -CURRENT and applying only some of the FreeBSD changes to see just why we cannot live with a more stock GNU tar. > Do you have a list of discrepancies (not a diff) between the current > BSD tar and the version of GNU tar it's based on? No, I read diffs. :-) -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
