On 14.11.2019 05:11, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > On 14.11.2019 04:55, Roy Marples wrote: >> On 14/11/2019 02:40, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >>> On 14.11.2019 03:34, Roy Marples wrote: >>>> On 13/11/2019 22:32, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >>>>> Module Name: src >>>>> Committed By: joerg >>>>> Date: Wed Nov 13 22:32:16 UTC 2019 >>>>> >>>>> Modified Files: >>>>> src/share/mk: bsd.own.mk >>>>> >>>>> Log Message: >>>>> Restore pax-as-tar. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> To generate a diff of this commit: >>>>> cvs rdiff -u -r1.1159 -r1.1160 src/share/mk/bsd.own.mk >>>> >>>> And so we are doomed that we cannot open more modern archives with the >>>> base system tar .... :/ >>> >>> Nothing is determined here to be doomed. >>> >>> Michal prepared a summary of TAR features in his write up: >>> >>> https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/articles/portability-of-tar-features.html >> >> TLDR; libarchive has feature parity with NetBSD pax. >> So why the peanut gallery complaints or is this write missing something >> or I've missed something. >> >> I've had two recent archives that failed to open with NetBSD pax as tar >> and the internal consensous was to use libarchive instead because NetBSD >> pax wasn't maintained and thus would never support these. >> >> So, to re-iterate, am I doomed never to open these archives w NetBSD >> base OS or do you have some magic wand of +4 solving Roy's problems I've >> not seen yet? >> >> Roy > > Please file a PR and/or use gtar/bsdtar from pkgsrc as a fallback. > Another fallback option is to set MKBSDTAR=yes when building base OS.
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