In article <Pine.NEB.4.44.0301172327390.476-100000@angelic.cynic.net>,
Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Luke Mewburn wrote:
>
>> If pax-as-tar and pax-as-cpio is working fine, then no objections from me.
>
>Are they really working fine? For example, can we now untar Apache Jakarta
>distribution tar files? As of the end of November, we couldn't. (You have
>to use gnu tar to unpack them.)
>

No we can't. Get the apache people to fix their broken tar implementation
that produces corrupt files. Even gtar-current complains about them. The
files are not valid tar files.

christos