Re: [ft-devel] PaxHeaders directories when using BSD tar

[Roland Mainz]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> These PaxHeaders.xxx directories were created when using the standard
>> BSD tar program.  When I downloaded and used GNU tar the build worked
>> fine.  Can freetype be packaged using a more portable tar method?
>
> Quoting from http://packages.ubuntu.com/de/lucid/bsdtar
> "GNU tar support. Libarchive reads most GNU tar archives. If there is
> demand, this can be improved further."
>
> It sounds like bsdtar strives to achieve potability with GNU tar, so
> you should readdress your request to bsdtar.

Erm... GNU tar is *FAR* away from the POSIX standard (technically
there are lots of rants from Joerg Schilling about this on the net...
I don't share the style of the rants... but (as hard it is for me to
agree with him) from a technical perspective he's mostly right... ;-/
) ... so we should embrace more of the POSIX ustar and pax formats and
not "more" GNU tar extensions.

----

Bye,
Roland

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