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atelszewski 04-13-2016 06:59 PM
Why tar 1.13 in pkgtools?
 
Hi,

Out of curiosity:
What is the reason for using tar 1.13 and not newer versions in pkgtools?
What behavior has changed and what is the desired one?

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Andrzej Telszewski

ReaperX7 04-13-2016 07:10 PM
Modern tar doesn't like to work with symlinks in the directory tree. Tar-1.13 doesn't muck things up. I think it was asked about libarchive and bsdtar could work in it's place, but that was many moons ago and I forget what was said other than "no".

atelszewski 04-13-2016 07:26 PM
Hi,

Quote:
Modern tar doesn't like to work with symlinks in the directory tree.
Can you elaborate?

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski

Gerard Lally 04-13-2016 08:43 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by atelszewski (Post 5530725)
What is the reason for using tar 1.13 and not newer versions in pkgtools?
Why tar 1.13?

You can search the forum for many of these issues.

ReaperX7 04-13-2016 08:53 PM
And that's why in a nutshell.

atelszewski.versades 04-14-2016 02:18 AM
Hi,

Quote:
Originally Posted by gezley (Post 5530785)
Why tar 1.13?

You can search the forum for many of these issues.
Silly me, but it still sometimes happens to me that asking a human is easier than asking the computer ;)

Thanks for the link!

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Andrzej Telszewski

Gerard Lally 04-14-2016 10:10 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by atelszewski.versades (Post 5530892)
Silly me, but it still sometimes happens to me that asking a human is easier than asking the computer ;)
Of course. Same here.

ReaperX7 04-15-2016 10:24 AM
To quote the computer, "Beep."


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