Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:13:10AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > "Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at Sun.COM> wrote:
> >
> > > It would be interesting to survey the closed-bins and find out how many
> > > of those were still required to build open source ON. I wonder how much
> > > closer this case will bring us? It certainly can't *hurt*. :-)
> >
> > I am still wondering why some cases are considered and other much older
> > cases
> > such as replacing pax by the "pax"-CLI from star seems to be completely
> > ignored. Isn't this something that should change?
>
> At the risk of setting fire to something, I think that's still awaiting
> someone
> to do that work, isn't it?
It first requires a sign of will from people inside Sun/Oracle as we the
Community currently cannot directly influence/control the software that comes
with Solaris.
Note that star compiles/works on more than 30 Platforms including Solaris.
There
is no need to work on the code unless somebody is able to express a wishlist
for changes in star and this list gets accepted.
> If replacing pax is very important, I'd be willing to port FreeBSD's
It is more important to finally integrate star in general. FreeBSDs libarchive
misses a lot of the features found in star.
J?rg
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