Re: don't generate non-portable archives by default!!!! CVS commit: basesrc/bin/pax

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Oct 16,  7:39pm, kleink%reziprozitaet.de@localhost (Klaus Klein) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: don't generate non-portable archives by default!!!! CVS commi

Ok, did that [and will commit soon]. Extensions are enabled with -E.

christos

| christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) writes:
| 
| > On Oct 16, 11:46am, woods%weird.com@localhost (Greg A. Woods) wrote:
| > -- Subject: Re: don't generate non-portable archives by default!!!! CVS 
commi
| > 
| > The choice that I had was to enable or disable gnu extensions by
| > default.  NetBSD had the extensions turned on by default [by virtue
| > of using gnu-tar as tar], so I followed the existing practice.
| 
| However, your change extends them to pax(1) as well.  While I'm
| certainly not opposed to support of these extensions being continued
| via the tar(1) interface, I'd rather like to see the pax(1) interface
| require a command line switch for creation of such archives.
| 
| 
| - Klaus
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