Re: pax(1) needs to learn POSIX-pax format (by libarchive(3)?)

2016-11-04 Thread David Magda
On Nov 4, 2016, at 04:54, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > Would be wonderful if someone could catch up pax(1)'s libarchive(3) > transition, but I guess the libarchive developers aren't interested or > have very much spare resources… Have you asked them? Do they know it is a problem? Do they have a b

Re: pax(1) needs to learn POSIX-pax format (by libarchive(3)?)

2016-11-04 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich David Magda's Nachricht vom 04.11.2016 03:56 (localtime): > On Nov 1, 2016, at 13:44, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > >> Has anyone ever thought about? Unfortunately I'm lacking skills and time :-( > > You’ll want to talk to the folks here: > > http://libarchive.org > > That is the

Re: pax(1) needs to learn POSIX-pax format (by libarchive(3)?)

2016-11-03 Thread David Magda
On Nov 1, 2016, at 13:44, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > Has anyone ever thought about? Unfortunately I'm lacking skills and time :-( You’ll want to talk to the folks here: http://libarchive.org That is the upstream project. It actually started on FreeBSD over a decade ago but spun off o

pax(1) needs to learn POSIX-pax format (by libarchive(3)?)

2016-11-01 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Dear hackers, I'm frequently missing pax(1) ability to handle the pax (the POSIX pax) format. Backing up real-world file names and lengths doesn't work with ustar format - which pax(1) uses and also tar(1) by default. I'd prefer using pax(1) because of it's cli usage – personal taste… But in pra