On Jan 18, 10:16am, cjs@cynic.net (Curt Sampson) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Removing GNU tar and GNU cpio from src?

Yeah, we totally agree then. If you find a tar file that we don't extract
the same data for even if it is corrupted, let me know and I'll fix it.

christos

| Oh, does it? Well that's a much better situation than I thought. If
| that's the case, maybe we just need to add some sort of flag to the
| package system that says, "pax will claim failure to extract" so that
| the packages for these Apache things will not stay broken. (Or a flag
| that says "use gnu tar.")
| 
| cjs
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