Re: tar-pax or tar-ustar as a default for automake

[Javier Jardón]

On 22 June 2011 02:28, Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>
>> The problem, of course, being that pax probably isn't available, which
>> makes it hard for a default choice.
>
> As per WikiPedia:
>
> "Despite being standardized in 2001 by IEEE, as of 2010, pax enjoys
> relatively little popularity and penetration rate.
>
> pax is required to be present in all conformant systems by Linux Standard
> Base since version 3.0 (released on July 6, 2005),[2] but so far few Linux
> distributions ship and install it by default. However, most distributions
> include pax as a separately installable package."
>
> I find pax under Solaris, FreeBSD, & Apple's OS X but not (by default on)
> Ubtuntu Linux.

FYI, GNU tar added pax support in 2004 [1]
Anyway, a change to ustar would be enough for us. Should I file a bug for this?

Best regards


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format) (See problems and
limitations)
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Javier Jardón Cabezas