Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open Group dixit:
>I don't know if NetBSD have switched to libarchive for their tar
>yet
Define “yet”. libarchive is chiefly a FreeBSD thing, and on the
BSD side, paxtar will continue to be developed, so we have multiple
implementations (which is A
2021-07-04 07:21:08 +0100, Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open
Group:
[...]
> Note that the equivalent --transform in the GNU implementation
> of tar lets you specify whether to apply the transformation to
> {sym,hard}links or not with flags.
[...]
Actually, libarchive's bsdtar
2021-07-03 18:43:40 -0700, Michael Forney via austin-group-l at The Open Group:
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> I'm working on an implementation of the pax tool, and am looking
> for some clarification of how (if at all) the -s option should
> interact with symlink targets.
[...]
See also:
Hello,
I'm working on an implementation of the pax tool, and am looking
for some clarification of how (if at all) the -s option should
interact with symlink targets.
Here are the relevant parts of the specification that I found:
> -s replstr
> Modify file or archive member names named by
