Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system

2002-06-04 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:36:17 +1000, Tim J. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Having two tar's, two cpio's, two awk's, gzip and zlib in the base system is bloat. It may be bloat, but it's tolerable bloat that our users are well-accustomed to. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system

2002-06-04 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:56:58PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: However, before proceeding I would like to get an advice with regard to the most appropriate procedure for doing the upgrade. The problem is that old version of tar was just cvs add'ed, not imported, so that it is unclear how to

Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system

2002-06-04 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:36:17PM +1000, Tim J. Robbins wrote: I am in favour of doing this. Same with cpio. I'd prefer to see GNU tar and cpio in ports (if they are not already there). We have had GNU tar just too long to move it to ports. Nothing else has the same options or support.

Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system

2002-06-03 Thread Paul Herman
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: However, before proceeding I would like to get an advice with regard to the most appropriate procedure for doing the upgrade. This came up in another list somewhere (don't know off hand), but you might also consider having tar wrap around pax. OpenBSD

Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system

2002-06-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0700, Paul Herman wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: However, before proceeding I would like to get an advice with regard to the most appropriate procedure for doing the upgrade. This came up in another list somewhere (don't know off

Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system

2002-06-03 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:49:49PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0700, Paul Herman wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: However, before proceeding I would like to get an advice with regard to the most appropriate procedure for doing the

Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system

2002-06-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 02:10:28AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: last week, I've began to comlete your work done last year by resyncing FreeBSD pax w/ the NetBSD/OpenBSD ones. would be done by the end of this week... Cool! Thanks for doing this. Kris msg39139/pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: Updating GNU Tar in the base system

2002-06-03 Thread Tim J. Robbins
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0700, Paul Herman wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: However, before proceeding I would like to get an advice with regard to the most appropriate procedure for doing the upgrade. This came up in another list somewhere (don't know off