Re: Which "tar" should be used to pack the X11R6.8.0 source tarballs ?
Eric Anholt <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 19:45, Roland Mainz wrote: > Hi! > > ---- > > Which "tar" version was used to pack the X11R6.8.0 tarballs ? I am just > asking because there are several incompatibilities between the various > versions of "tar" (many of them caused by GNU tar which has extensions > none of the other tar versions understand... ;-( ) and I'd like to avoid > the h*ll in which Mozilla.org resides in (their "tar.gz" tar archives > (created with GNU tar) can only properly be unpacked using "pax" or > "star" on non-GNU platforms). Whatever you do, please do not replace the tarballs in-place if you choose to re-pack them. That causes a lot of problems for systems such as BSD ports and their associated distfile mirroring, which check md5sums. -- Eric Anholt [email protected] http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ [email protected] Thank goodness for the 22nd Amendment